Business ethics

According to a new study, working with men in specific industries is bad for women. Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington found that female employees working in male-dominated areas such as science, tech and engineering had higher levels of stress.

Bulgaria is among countries doing little or no effort to combat foreign bribery, a Transparency International report shows.

In its Progress Report 2015: Assessing Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery [PDF], the organization says cross-border bribery "has enormous negative consequences for the populations of affected countries".

Watchdog organisation Transparency Serbia told BIRN that the Nenadic case will be a good test of the effectiveness of the recently-adopted legislation protecting whisteblowers.

"This case will show how effective the new law is, because we haven't had such a case since the enactment of the law," said Bojana Medenica from Transparency Serbia.

The president of Toshiba and seven other high-level executives and directors resigned on July 21 over a $1.2 billion accounting scandal blamed on management's overzealous pursuit of profit that has battered one of Japan's best-known firms.

A gang of Bangladeshis with forged documents allegedly transferred undocumented workers to Cyprus to work in sweatshops. Greek-Cypriot Fileleftheros newspaper reports that 7-8,000 euros were taken from each person so that they could be transported to the free parts of the island, using false documents with promises of work.

The OECD Working Group on Bribery has released a review of Greece's efforts to fight foreign bribery on March 20 at 11 a.m. (central European time).

BELGRADE - A new portal has been launched in Serbia to facilitate the sharing of information concerning operations of companies, organizations, individuals in the field of social responsibility.

Borsa Istanbul will launch a sustainability index tomorrow as part of an effort to assess companies trading on the exchange based on their performances on environmental, social and governance issues.

Bulgaria has regressed in the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention  enforcement, a new report by Transparency International has shown.

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The OECD has stated that it remains seriously concerned about Turkey’s low level of foreign bribery law enforcement, as well as certain aspects of its corporate liability legislation.