Chêne, Marie2019-09-252019-09-252015-01-292012-05-22http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/217643"As the bulk of business in most economies is conducted by SMEs, there are major potential benefits associated with implementing ethics management programmes within small and middle sized firms. Codes of conduct constitute a central element of business ethics programmes to ensure that the company’s activities comply with relevant laws and regulations and provide adequate guidance to employees and other key stakeholders on what behaviours and business conduct are expected of them. This answer provides a few examples of codes of conduct specifically developed for SMEs as well as examples of business ethics related activities conducted by TI national chapters that specifically target SMEs. "engWith permission of the license/copyright holdercode of ethicscode of conductmanagement programsbusiness conductstakeholdersPolitical ethicsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsEconomic ethicsBusiness ethicsPreprint