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Thought leadership

Advancing thinking and debate

Society benefits when markets are efficient and when they deliver desired public policy outcomes. This thought leadership initiative focuses on the foundations of markets; can they can be improved to enhance market effectiveness and efficiency?

The Market Foundations initiative

Foundations of how markets work have often built up in an ad hoc fashion.

These foundations include:

  • participants (whether as principals, agents or advisers) that can trust and be trusted;
  • accepted, predictable and transparent standards of behaviour; and
  • effective and efficient mechanisms to intervene in the markets where needed to correct the behaviour.
  • We consider whether market foundations can be improved to enhance effectiveness and efficiency.

If you would like to comment on the topics covered by the Market Foundations programme, contribute to the ongoing work it refers to, or follow progress and receive copies of subsequent reports, contact us at:marketfoundations@icaew.com

Publications

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Future enterprise: assessing forms of business
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Our paper future enterprise: assessing forms of business gives an overview of the main forms of business used today and explores whether they are truly serving the needs human enterprise of the 21st century or whether there might be better alternatives, perhaps modelled on the human networks we form in private life.
Acting in the puyblic interest a framework analysis
The public interest
How do you make a decision in the Public Interest?
Real integrity – Practical solutions for organisations seeking to promote and encourage integrity
Real integrity report
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Practical solutions for organisations seeking to promote and encourage integrity. This research report looks at the meaning of integrity and how it can be promoted in organisations.
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Instilling integrity in organisations
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This publication includes a number of suggested questions that directors could pose to determine the role of integrity in their organisation, and how it is assessed and instilled.
Business and economic crime in an international context
Business and economic crime in an international context
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A review of international law and practice in relation to crime committed by or on behalf of business.
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