• Multinationals, Local Practice and the Problem of Ethical Consistency

    Author(s):
    Arnold Berleant (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Subject(s):
    Ethics, Business enterprises, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Business history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6PK3B
    Abstract:
    The business practices of multinational corporations raise many provocative moral issues and offer a touchstone for some fundamental ethical concepts. This essay identifies a wide range of problems but centers on the matter of consistency in corporate policy between foreign and domestic practices and the kind of generality of standards that is required to achieve consistency. Two considerations are singled out for illustrative discussion: wage scales and bribes. Proposals are offered for achieving consistency and generality in each case, the principle of contextual generality for the first and the notion of structural universals for the second.
    Notes:
    Ethics and Management, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Value Inquiry, (Brockport, N.Y. 1981). Reprinted in the Journal of Business Ethics, 1, (1982), 185-193. Also in The Ethical Factor in Business Decisions.
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