Naomi Seligman Steiner, deputy director of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, says the rise of the Internet and 24-hour cable news has empowered the public with an "insatiable appetite" for scandal.

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In 2010, the Journal of Business Ethics published The Impact of Board Diversity and Gender Composition on Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Reputation.

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"Senator McCain is a leader in the Senate on ethics issues and campaign finance reform, " said Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of the watchdog group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington.

NPR: McCain Denounces 'Times' Story on Lobbyist Ties

In my case, he let loose the ethics investigators of the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) to smear my reputation and that of Jay Bybee, who now sits as a federal judge on the court of appeals in San Francisco.

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Including such things as ethics, consideration of the wider aims of society, any thought at all about corporate social responsibility or even an acknowledgement of the idea that there are other stakeholders.

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Key themes of SD in the region include among other things poverty alleviation, citizenship, peace, ethics, responsibility in local and global contexts, democracy and governance, justice, security, human rights, health, gender equity, cultural diversity, rural and urban development, economy, production and consumption patterns, corporate social responsibility, environmental protection, climate change, prevention and adaptation, natural resource management, biological and landscape diversity.

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