The Ethics of International Business - Couverture souple

Donaldson, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195074718 ISBN 13 : 9780195074710

Editeur : Oxford University Press USA, 1989

Synopsis

When standards for pollution, discrimination, and salary schedules are lower in an offshore host country than they are in the home country, should multinational corporations insist on home country standards? Would using home standards imply a failure to respect cultural diversity and national integrity? What obligations, if any, do multinationals have to the people they affect indirectly? In this study, business ethicist Thomas Donaldson offers three concepts for interpreting international business ethics: a social contract between productive organizations and society, the notion of a fundamental international right, promulgated by ten specific international rights, and a moral "algorithm" to help multinational managers make tradeoffs between conflicting norms in home and host countries. He then employs these concepts in the analysis of specific problems such as the distribution of hazardous technology and South African divestment. A timely and important text for courses in international business or business ethics.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is a paper edition of the first book in the Ruffin Series in Business Ethics, published in December 1989. The book identifies a group of rights that are critical to international business and it develops a broad, normative, framework for use in interpreting ethics in a global market. It also proposes an ethical 'algorithm' for multinational managers to use in resolving conflicts between home country and host country standards. The availability of the book in paper will make it attractive as a supplement in the growing number of business ethics courses, and programs, in business schools.

Revue de presse

`Not much available on ethics in global business, so this is welcome.' S. Harrison, Leeds Metropolitan University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press USA
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195074718
• ISBN 13: 9780195074710
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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