Competing with Integrity in International Business

by De George, Richard T.

• ISBN13: 9780195082258
• ISBN10: 0195082257
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-09-16
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The first book to address the whole spectrum of multinational business ethics, Competing with Integrity in International Business examines moral debates about operating ethically in virtually every major market environment in the world. Taking the company of integrity as its objective, it offers guidelines for multinationals in underdeveloped countries as well as original strategies for corporations competing in corrupt environments. Backed by the distinguished author's wide and varied experience, both as a scholar and as consultant to firms and business institutions around the world, Competing with Integrity in International Business covers cooperation with local government, taxes, respect for and compliance with local society, human rights, national development, and other challenges, as well as responses to immoral adversaries and the use of publicity to expose corrupt actions. With case studies from across the globe, including the former Soviet bloc, China, Japan, and the European Community, this will prove an invaluable resource for business professionals, ethicists, philosophers, and students.

Table of Contents

Integrity in International Business: A Contradiction in Terms?	3	(23)
Integrity	5	(2)
Reputation and Integrity	7	(1)
Whose Ethics?	8	(11)
When in Rome	9	(6)
The Righteous American	15	(2)
The Naive Immoralist	17	(2)
The Basic Moral Norms	19	(3)
Integrity and International Business	22	(1)
The International Ethical Context	23	(19)
Global Pluralism	24	(2)
Absence of Adequate Background Institutions	26	(2)
The International Economy	28	(5)
Negvotiating Justice	33	(6)
Integrity and Ethical Demands	39	(3)
Multinationals and Less Developed Countries: Seven Guidelines	42	(17)
Ethical Norms for American Multinationals	45	(11)
Developing Ethical International Background Institutions	56	(1)
The Interconnection of American and international Business	57	(2)
Applying the Guidelines: MNCs and the Many Kind;s of Harm	59	(21)
Pharmaceutical and Pesticide Industries	60	(5)
Products Prohibited in the United States	61	(1)
Abuse of legitimate Products	62	(2)
The Nestle Boycott	64	(1)
Agricultural Enterprises	65	(3)
Banks and Financial Institutions	68	(6)
Banking and Elites	69	(1)
Debt	70	(1)
Banks and Flight Capital	71	(2)
Dependence and Abandonment	73	(1)
Extracting Industries	74	(6)
Manufacturing	78	(2)
Extending the Guidelines: Bhopal	80	(16)
Responsibility and Liability	81	(4)
Ethical Responsibility and Corporations	85	(5)
Parent and Subsidiary Companies	90	(6)
Ethical dilemmas, Conflicting Norms, and Personal Integrity	96	(17)
Ethical Displacement	97	(2)
Bribery and the Foreign corrupt Practices Act	99	(6)
The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act	102	(3)
Conflicting Cultural Norms and Values	105	(2)
Pressures on individuals to Violate Personal Norms	105	(1)
Conflicting Cultural Norms	106	(1)
Host-vs.-Home-Country Interests and Values	107	(1)
Moral Imagination	107	(3)
Moral Courage	110	(2)
The Cost of Being Ethical	112	(1)
Strategies for Competing with Corruption	113	(26)
Ten Strategies for Dealing with Corruption	114	(7)
Competing in corrupt Environments	121	(18)
Corrupt Social System	121	(3)
Corrupt Governments and Leaders	124	(3)
Corrupt Private Environments: Drugs and Syndicates	127	(4)
Corruption and Inefficient Government	131	(4)
competing with Multiple Corruption	135	(4)
Doing Business in Central and eastern Europe, the Former USSR, and China	139	(19)
Central and Eastern Europe	140	(14)
Property	145	(2)
Advertising	147	(1)
Exploitation	148	(2)
Social Democracy	150	(2)
Competition	152	(2)
The Former USSR	154	(1)
China	155	(3)
Doing Business with Japan and the European Community	158	(26)
Japan	159	(16)
Closed vs. Open Markets	164	(4)
Product Dumping?	168	(2)
The Selling of America	170	(5)
The European Community	175	(1)
The Opportunity for New International Agreements	175	(1)
Advertising	176	(8)
Foreign Workers	178	(2)
Industrial Espionage	180	(4)
Competing with integrity	184	(13)
Beyond the Minimum: Obligations and ideals	185	(3)
Positive Obligations Beyond the Minimum	185	(2)
Ethical Ideals	187	(1)
A Company of Integrity	188	(2)
Corporate Culture	190	(1)
Corporate Virtue	191	(1)
Background Institutions	192	(2)
Conclusion	194	(3)
Notes	197	(22)
Bibliography	219	(10)
Index	229