The Ethics of International Business (Ruffin Series in Business Ethics) - Hardcover

Donaldson, Thomas

9780195058741: The Ethics of International Business (Ruffin Series in Business Ethics)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195058747 ISBN 13: 9780195058741

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 1989

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? Or does 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.

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Review:

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

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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.

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