ABSTRACT
The chapter deals with 2 topics: How to design and teach ethics and anticorruption courses and, secondly, how Business Schools and Universities can add value in the fight against corruption beyond teaching.
Design and methods for teaching anti-corruption courses is complex. Corruption has many facets and comes along in regionally-, sector- and function specific forms. The purpose of any anticorruption curriculum is to develop leaders capable of identifying problems, recognizing alternatives, and making wise decisions with significant impact in the global business community. Any anticorruption course therefore must include ethics. The chapter discusses content, teaching methods and who should teach these courses.
There is quite some room for Business Schools to improve anti – corruption culture/s, strategies and tools beyond teaching Anti-Corruption: Business Schools should actively seek the dialogue and the establishment of partnerships with business sectors associations and companies in their region. They can search for and team up with partners from the anti-corruption field.
In doing so they will be able to develop new ideas for a closer cooperation between Academia and Business in order to improve the effectiveness of their actually mostly separated anti-corruption efforts, and design and implement them.
Examples for joint activities are:
Establishment of Anti-Corruption Research Centers or Anti-Corruption Chairs.
Best business practices platforms for the exchange of experiences with practitioners (e.g., Compliance Officers, corporate lawyers, CFOs, etc.).
