ABSTRACT
Some aspects of business ethics and corporate citizenship have an obvious relationship to project procurement. From an ethical point of view, the need to banish corruption and expunge exploitation is a given – or at least the espoused position of all reasonable people is that there is no place for these behaviours in a civilised world. So, there must be rules, standards and provisions that safeguard us from these extreme and unconscionable behaviours. This is where governance and cultural pressures from within organisations and society impose a way in which procurement of projects happens such that it does not solely satisfy the need for one particular group, organisation or individual to benefit unsustainably at the expense of others. The ontological perspective that we adopt in this chapter, and indeed in this book, is that the outcome of projects is a beneficial change that adds value and that this value should be sustainable and meets the needs of genuine project stakeholders. In this respect, this chapter links very closely with Chapter 3, Chapter 6 and Chapter 9 and somewhat to Chapter 8 and Chapter 10.
