ABSTRACT
The topic of institutional integrity lies at the core of the present volume. As aptly conceptualized by Breakey, Cadman, and Sampford, 2 the idea of institutional integrity closely resonates with that of personal integrity in that it refers to whether an institution, considered either as an agent or inanimate object, actually lives up to its publicly proclaimed values and goals – what Breakey and colleagues call its ‘public institutional justification’ (PIJ). Embedded within a broader conceptual framework (that is, the Comprehensive Integrity Framework), the concept of institutional integrity helps to shed light on an institution’s PIJ and its substantive and normative content, as well as on an institution’s various aspects of institutional integrity (for example, coherence-integrity, consistency-integrity, comprehensive-integrity, and context-integrity).
