IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/csrchp/978-3-031-74523-2_15.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Ethical Leadership, Sustainable Governance, and the Prevention of Fraud

In: Corporate Governance, Organizational Ethics, and Prevention Strategies Against Financial Crime

Author

Listed:
  • Aliza Racelis

    (Virata School of Business, University of the Philippines)

Abstract

Corporate culture and corporate ethics can help reduce or eradicate fraud in companies by creating a positive and supportive environment that encourages employees to behave more honorably. It is a culture of character that can help more effectively in the reduction of corporate fraud; but the creation of such values-based organizations must begin at the top. The implementation and reinforcement of ethical leadership among the top management can help prevent corporate crimes: literature has pointed to the important role of tone at the top in mitigating corporate fraud behavior and, consequently, acting as a pivotal point to achieve sustainable corporate governance. Organizational socialization, which involves transmitting organizational and role information to newcomers, is crucial to the creation of ethical leadership. Ethical learning should be an ongoing process that encourages moral reflection in order to foster an ethical organization. This chapter emphasizes the importance of ethical leadership, ethical learning, aligning ethical management strategies with the organizational climate, promoting sustainable governance, and preventing fraud through effective communication and accountability.

Suggested Citation

  • Aliza Racelis, 2025. "Ethical Leadership, Sustainable Governance, and the Prevention of Fraud," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Hyacinthe Yirlier Somé & Narjess Boubakri & Omrane Guedhami (ed.), Corporate Governance, Organizational Ethics, and Prevention Strategies Against Financial Crime, pages 323-338, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-031-74523-2_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-74523-2_15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-031-74523-2_15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.