licensing – the oversight ethics of business licensing. To date, research on ethics has all but ignored the ethics of oversight. A search of the Journal of Business Ethics over the past 10 years did not find any articles about oversight ethics. And a recent review of public administration research on ethics reveals a mush- rooming of empirical studies, but not one of the studies surveyed addresses oversight ethics (Menzel, 1999, 2003). The author identifies five main themes in empirical ethics