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Ford
Integrating transparency and anti-corruption throughout the business
The company
The Ford Motor Company (Ford) is an American multinational corporation, which
designs, develops, manufactures, and services automobiles on a global scale. It is
the fourth largest manufacturer and distributor of   automobiles based on worldwide
vehicle sales and remains one of the world's ten largest corporations by revenue
(www.ford.com). Ford has about 228,000 employees, competes in over 200 markets
across six continents and has about 90 plants worldwide.  
Ford’s global diversity, widescale operations and activities mean that it impacts,
either negatively or positively, upon a wide range   of stakeholders, e.g. suppliers,
employees, environmentalists and communities. Over   recent years, Ford has been
recognised as the industry leader for business responsibility.   It has made major wide
scale changes to its ways of working in order to integrate a variety of ethical
codes/standards, sustainability initiatives,   transparency and anti-corruption policies,
throughout the business.  
This case study focuses on Ford’s transparency and anti-corruption policies.  
Drivers of change
In an interview with David Berdish (2009), the Manager of Sustainable Business
Development at Ford, two significant drivers of change were identified, that have lead
to heightened levels of transparency and anti-corruption for Ford; these are:
US legal framework
Berdish (2009) identified that 30-40 years ago corruption and bribery obtained a high
proportion of business transactions within the US.   Since then, US laws, legal
sanctions, policies and regulations have been either introduced or tightened up in
order to minimise corruption at all levels. This meant that corporations, e.g. Ford, had
increasing pressure placed on them to move...