The challenge of leadership accountability for integrity capacity as a strategic asset

The authors identify the challenge of holding contemporary business leaders accountable for enhancing the intangible strategic asset of integrity capa city in organizations. After defining integrity capacity and framing it as part of a strategic resource model of sustainable global competitive advant age, the stakeholder costs of integrity capacity neglect are delineated. To address this neglect issue, the authors focus on the cultivation of judgme nt integrity to handle behavioral, moral and hypothesized economic complexi ties as key dimensions of integrity capacity. Finally, the authors recommen d two leadership practices to build competence in business leaders to enhan ce integrity capacity as an organizational strategic asset.