Welcome to the Center for Integrity in Business!

Ethics (especially those based on the Christian tradition) have long been priorities at Seattle Pacific University's School of Business & Economics. The Center for Integrity in Business was recently established to promote a thorough and rigorous reevaluation of the purposes, role, and values of business in these times of moral and ethical crisis. The Center is aimed at encouraging and facilitating an on-going dialogue between business people, academics and theologians about how business should work.

Asking the "why" question...
Ask a business-person; "Why are you in business?" and you're likely to hear: "To make money." Yet this begs the question of why? What is the ultimate goal or purpose of business?

Recent Presentations by Center Scholars

      Jeff Van Duzer, J.D., at InterVarsity's Following Christ '08 Conference

• How Business Contributes to Human Flourishing
  Introduction by Kathy Tuan-MacLean. (Audio duration: 35:42)

      Dr. Denise Daniels, Kiros Talk, July 11, 2008            

• Redeeming Work

      Dr. Al Erisman, Lake Tahoe Retreat Talks, July 4-6, 2008           

• A Biblical View of Work           
• Scriptural Principles for Business Ethics
• Living in the Kingdom

Talks from the October 4, 2007 Bridging Sunday and Monday Conference

      These are early versions.

• Don Flow Engaging the World: Vocation, Eschatology, and Shalom
• Don Flow Christianity Informing, Infusing and Re-forming Business
• Al Erisman & Jeff Van Duzer The Purpose of Business