CENTER FOR PROFESSIONAL INTEGRITY & ACCOUNTABILITY

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The purpose of the Center for Professional Integrity and Accountability is to act as facilitator, conscience, and critic of organizational management and the related accounting and business professionals as they strive to act responsibly. Consistent with the strategic initiatives of the University and the School of Business Administration, the Center focuses its efforts on economic, social, and environmental sustainability, recognizing that accountability is the linchpin of any legitimate and just system of rights and responsibilities. The primary strategy is to integrate our efforts with those of the academy and the community. To this end, the Center is developing an international network of scholars and professionals, engaged in related research projects, sponsoring various university and community workshops, and encouraging student involvement in contributory programs.

The objective of the Center is to encourage inclusive, enlightened, and ongoing dialogue concerning what constitutes organizational management and the accounting and business professionals’ responsibility for acting in the public interest. In pursuing this objective the center encourages and supports:

• educational innovations as they enhance the ability to envision opportunities for responsible and responsive action, especially in the areas of professional integrity and accountability
• scholarly investigation that brings together the expertise of faculty, students and community to identify and consider the critical public interest issues facing accounting and business professionals and organizational management
• community interaction by serving as a focal point for inclusive, enlightened, and sustained discourse in the Metro/Regional community, exploring the public interest role of business and the related professionals, and envisioning new opportunities for responsible and responsive action.

 

 

Associate Directors:

• David Layzell
• Nancy Dillard

 

 

Visiting Scholars

• Professor Norman Macintosh – Queens University, Canada
• Professor Mary Anne Reynolds – Western Washington University
• Professor Karen Van Peursem – University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Professor Cheryl McWatters – University of Alberta, Canada
• Mr. Larry O’Connor – La Trobe University, Australia
• Professor Dennis Caplan – Oregon State University (Feb. 1, 2008)

 

 

 

Weekly discussion Group

• Friday 10-11am

 

 

Social Sustainability Projects

• Forthcoming anthology Understanding the Social Aspect of Sustainability, Routledge
• Co-sponsor Colloquia Series
• Community-University initiative developing social bottom line indicators
• The Portland State Project forthcoming in Social and Environmental Accounting Journal.

   

• EMS Workshop, INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS UNIVERSOTAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA, Barcelona, Spain

 

 

International Connections

• Center for Social and Environmental Accounting, St. Andrews University, UK
• Center for Public Interest Accounting, University of Calgary, CA
• School of Management, University of Sheffield, UK
• Advisory Board, School of Accounting and Finance, University of Dundee, UK
• College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, NZ
• Institut de Cienciea I Technologia Ambientals, Unversotat Autonoma de Barcelona