Trust, Accountability and Purpose

Explores how corporations can rebuild trust through organisational and regulatory design across interlocking themes.

How to rebuild corporate trust in distrusting times? Integrity, responsibility and accountability must be embedded into mission statements, values and codes of conduct. This Element explores how corporations can rebuild trust through organisational and regulatory design across interlocking themes: legal, regulatory, managerial, ethical and social.The collapse of trust can be found across all of our institutions but most of all in finance. This Element seeks to answer an existential question: how to rebuild trust in distrusting times? Integrity, responsibility and accountability must be embedded into corporate mission statements, values and codes of conduct. Through organisational and regulatory design across five interlocking themes - legal, regulatory, managerial, ethical and social. What is required is substantive rather than technical compliance; warranted rather than stated commitment to high ethical standards; effective deterrence strategies; enhanced accountability; and a shared commitment to risk within negotiated, binding and enforceable parameters.