Corporate Social Responsibility Enhanced Control Systems Reducing the Likelihood of Fraud

• Published in: Journal of business ethics Vol. 131; no. 4; pp. 871 - 882
• Main Authors: Rodgers, Waymond, Söderbom, Arne, Guiral, Andrés
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.11.2015; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accountability; Behavior; Business and Management; Business Ethics; Corporate responsibility; Decision making; Education; Employees; Ethics; Fraud; Fraud prevention; Internal controls; Management; Perceptions; Philosophy; Problem solving; Quality of Life Research; Social responsibility; Stakeholders; Studies; United States > US; Ethics; Corporate social responsibility; Fraud; Throughput Model; Internal controls
• ISSN: 0167-4544; 1573-0697
• DOI: 10.1007/s10551-014-2152-5

All kinds of fraud are costly for the people engrossed both financially and often in terms of the time needed to clear their name when illegal use has been made of their personal details. The relationship among ethics, internal control, and fraud is important in the understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This article uses an Ethical Process Throughput Model embedded in the Fraud triangle in order to better understand the interconnectedness of ethical positions and internal control systems that handle fraudulent situations. Ethical positions are utilized to underscore how ethical behavioral control systems can be appropriately applied, which can provide unparalleled security, enhanced convenience, heightened accountability, better fraud detection and is very effective in depressing fraud, thereby improving CSR among organizations.