Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI)A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to independent research that advances high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions, The ECI is the home of the biennial National Business Ethics Survey, the most exacting longitudinal research effort examining organizational ethics from the employee perspective. The Institute represents the merger in 2015 of three orgnizations: the Ethics Research Center, the Ethics & Compliance Association, and the Ethics & Compliance Certification Institute