Ethics and ICT/IS in
Organizations
Gilbertine IKILI OSSANA
Information Systems: CERAG
Advisor: Marc FAVIER
Presentation of PhD subject: June 8, 2012
Structure
 Key concepts
 Context
 Outline
 Implications
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ICT
Ethics
Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
ICT: Information and Communication Technology
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
IS: Information Systems
Implications
Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
Interaction between ICT, IS and Business
Business
IS
ICT
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
Ethic
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
Moral vs. Ethics
Stahl (2008)
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
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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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
Ethics
ICT/IS
Ethics
ICT/IS
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
ICT/IS Ethics
Computer uses
Information
Ethics
Information
life cycle
Computer
Ethics
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
Global Impact of
ICT/IS evolution
 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
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
Impact of
ICT/IS evolution
Organization
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
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The Literature
 Anglosaxon sources
 Focuses on evaluation of codes of conduct or
business codes
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Research question
How do organizations define their
ethical positions through ICT/IS user
guidelines?
Key
concepts
Step 1
Context
Outline
Implications
• Collect codes of Ethics (ICT/IS user guidelines)
• Analyze content of codes of Ethics (Lefebvre & Singh,
1992, 2006)
Step 2
Step 3
• Compare their evolution & specificities
• Assess the degree of ethical development of codes
(Kohlberg, 1972)
Step 4
Research
question
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
Theoretical and methodological
contributions
 Contributes to current literature
 Proposes a framework that analyses
codes of Ethics ( ICT/IS user guidelines)
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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
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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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
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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Key
concepts
Context
Outline
Implications
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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