Daniel Malan
“This approach has potential to complement the regulatory requirements around conduct risk and requirements for culture and culture assessment that are set by local and European regulators.”
Chief Compliance Officer of a large bank
Project Name: Integrity Management at Scale
Problem addressed by the research
Ethics and Compliance Officers of large global corporations face two acute challenges. Firstly, generic ethics training is affordable but ineffective, while customised training is effective but hugely expensive. Secondly, Ethics and Compliance Officers lack access to sophisticated organisational integrity management data, unlike their counterparts in sustainability management who have access to advanced environmental and social data management platforms.
Project description
To address these challenges, Professor Daniel Malan developed a conceptual and managerial framework for organisational integrity which was included in a monograph, Power and Corporate Responsibility, published by Routledge in 2024. Power and Corporate Responsibility was the joint winner of the 2024 Best Book Award of the Academy of Management’s Social Issues in Management (SIM) division. The next stage was to commercialise this approach to benefit the ethics and compliance functions of large global corporations.
Project outcomes so far
The research has now been translated into a Trinity campus company (IntegrityIQ), with Professor Malan as the founder. Professor Malan collaborated with Enterprise Ireland (as the Principal Investigator on a commercialisation grant) and with Learnovate, a technology centre hosted by Trinity College Dublin and funded by Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland. IntegrityIQ now has high potential start-up (HPSU) status with Enterprise Ireland and is a member of Learnovate.
IntegrityIQ has successfully completed beta testing with a large multinational company in Canada that has requested a non-competitive quotation to become an early adopter. The company has received additional support from Enterprise Ireland. In 2024, IntegrityIQ was a regional finalist in Intertrade Ireland’s Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition.