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*Call for papers: Seventh workshop of the EGPA Study Group on ETHICS AND
INTEGRITY OF GOVERNANCE

**Malta, 2-5 September 200**9*

*EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 5th!*

The Study Group on Ethics and Integrity of Governance brings together
academics and practitioners interested in the ethical dimension of
administration and organization. The group's mission is to establish a
long-term network aimed at stimulating research on public sector integrity
and ethics in Europe. The Study Group was launched at the 2003 EGPA  (European
Group of Public Administration) Annual Conference and had an average
attendance of about 40 participants in the subsequent annual meetings. The
aim of these annual sessions is to present an overview of the cutting-edge
European research on ethics and integrity of governance with relevance for
the practice of European governance and government. The Study Group
coordinates the first Global Dialogue on Ethics and Integrity of Governance
in Amsterdam, May 28-30th 2009.
You can find more information on the study group and our events at our
website at:  www.fsw.vu.nl/egpa-ethics

With this call for papers we invite you to participate in our seventh
regular workshop session at the 2009 EGPA Annual Conference in Malta.

For the Malta meeting in September 2009, we invite papers for two tracks:

1. General track: ETHICS AND INTEGRITY OF GOVERNANCE
For this track, we will accept papers in the broad field of ethics and
integrity of governance. Possible themes could include (but are not limited
to) the following:
- What is the state of the art of our knowledge on ethics and integrity,
nationally as well as internationally?
- What really works in ethics management (training, codes, communication,
strong enforcement,...): what helps organizations to improve the ethics and
integrity of their staff and their organization as such? And which
institutions have proven to be effective in curbing corruption and other
integrity violations, while also positively increasing integrity?
- What are the big questions for (future) research as well as policy
developments on administrative ethics in Europe and is a common agenda
thinkable for the ‘western’ and the ‘transitional’ European countries?
- What are the central values of governance in today’s society, what
differences do exist between the values of governance in the public and
private sector (including civil society) and what changes in ethics and
integrity (including values) have resulted from developments like e.g. New
Public Management and Corporate Social Responsibility?
- What is ethical leadership and what role does or can it play in specific
circumstances (like, for example, times of natural and man-made disasters)?
- How to achieve desirable levels and types of accountability and
responsibility in the public sector?
As usual, we like to emphasize that the study group particularly
welcomes *comparative
*research (comparing respectively countries and organizations) and single
case studies can only be considered on the condition that they go beyond
mere description and are embedded in a *theoretical framework*.

2. Themed session on ACADEMIC RESEARCH AND ETHICS
This session could address both general questions on ethics of academic
research and specific questions on the ethics of research in ethics and
integrity of governance:
- How ethical are academics in research and teaching, what types of
integrity violations do occur, what instruments and institutions are used to
protect academic integrity and what works?
- What are the standards that apply to empirical research on organisational
ethics and what are the dilemmas we face when applying those standards
during our research?
This track will be coordinated by Diana Schmidt-Pfister
diana.schmidt-pfister@uni-konstanz.de  Unlike for the general track, for
this track we invite both short, reflective papers as well as full academic
papers. The main aim of these papers is to support in-depth discussion of
the themes. Papers presenting empirical insights into the values and ethical
practices (and the governance thereof) among researchers (nationally,
internationally, at an organisational or disciplinary level) are
particularly welcome.

 Paper proposals (both for the general track and the themed session) should
be e-mailed *before **June* *5th**, 2009* to both:
- Jeroen Maesschalck, Leuven Institute of Criminology, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, e-mail: jeroen.maesschalck@law.kuleuven.be
- Leo Huberts, Department of Public Administration,  VU Amsterdam, e-mail:
lwjc.huberts@fsw.vu.nl

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