Corporate Integrity Just a Concept or Real Behavior/Practice

Numerous scandals in many companies resulting from the unethical behavior of key stakeholders have brought to the fore the importance of the concept of corporate integrity and its application in governance and management processes. Different guidelines and recommendations have been established, whose main purpose is to help companies achieve and sustain credibility and integrity The case study research methodology was applied to explore the concept of corporate integrity in practice. We used an extreme case to show that, on the one hand, corporate integrity is a relevant phenomenon but, on the other, it needs changes in order to improve companies' practices. Several proposals are presented in the paper based on the legal and ethical analysis of the case.