Gilbertine IKILI OSSANAInformation Systems: CERAG

Advisor: Marc FAVIER 

Ethics and ICT/IS in Organizations

Presentation of PhD subject: June 8, 2012

Structure

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Key concepts

Context

Outline

Implications

ICT

Codes of

Ethics

IS

Ethics

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ICT: Information and Communication Technology

ICT ICT

IS: Information Systems

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Interaction between ICT, IS and Business

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Ethic

Moral vs. Ethics

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Stahl (2008)

Codes of Ethics:

A corporate statement that registers corporate principles, ethics, rules of conduct, codes of practice, or company philosophy concerning

responsibility to stakeholders, the environment, or any other aspects of society

external to the company (Langlois and Schlegelmilch ,1990)

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ICT/IS Ethics

Information Ethics

Computer Ethics

Informationlife cycle

Informationlife cycle

Computer uses

Computer uses

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Global Impact of ICT/IS evolution

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Obligations: sharing public information – Privacy, responsibility, accuracy

Rights: access to information – Intellectual Property rights

New Uses: “cloud” storage of information - Privacy

Intense Social Change: Social media, Twitter, etc…- computer crime, abuses

Repu

tatio

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rate

gic

Econom

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Organization

Ethicals

issues

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Impact of ICT/IS evolution

The LiteratureAnglosaxon sources

Focuses on evaluation of codes of conduct or business codes

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How do organizations define their ethical positions through

ICT/IS user guidelines?

Research question

What are our goals?

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Research

question

Theoretical and methodological contributions Contributes to current literature

Proposes a framework that analyses codes of Ethics ( ICT/IS user guidelines)

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Managerial contributions: Propose policies that address and could prevent ethicals problems

Propose a tool to assess the degree of ethical development of codes (ICT/IS user guidelines)

Define training programs adapted to user needs

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Possible limits/difficulties

Not accessing the field (organizations) for the case study

Insufficient number of collected codes

Build the right tool to assess the degree of ethical development of codes (ICT/IS user guidelines)

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Agenda

From now to September 2012: literature review

October 2012: contact firms for interviews

January or February 2013: start to analyse ICT/IS user guidelines

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Thanks for your attention

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