Abstract
The notion of integrity, one of the central concepts in business ethics, has been
perceived as a virtue of character and recognized as an essential quality that manager
and leader should hold. Every time corporate scandals and corporate unethical behavior
come into the open, we repeatedly hear the word. However, despite the common
sense that integrity is important, there is no common definition or understanding
because of its ambiguity. In this paper, as a first step of understanding of integrity, I
will roughly describe the outline of integrity. In that work, I will classify the previous
studies on integrity into broad sense and narrow sense and then try to give integrated
interpretation of integrity.
