Moral issues and multinational corporations

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Moral issues and multinational corporations

Gerard Elfstrom

Macmillan, 1991

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Includes bibliography(p. 133-138) and index

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The latter half of this century is marked by the explosive growth of global commerce. "Moral Issues and Multinational Corporations" analyzes the nature, circumstances and prospects for moral sensitivity in multinational corporations. The major areas of difficulty include: enormous corporate wealth and vast size, global economic and cultural diversity, the mobility of corporations and their products and political manipulation of corporations by national governments. These issues come to intense focus in South Africa, which is examined separately. The conclusion addresses the question of whether future conditions may allow higher and more consistent standards of moral conduct for global commerce.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Corporate moral accountability: corporate moral agency
  • the Hobbesean situation
  • the obligation to seek profits
  • corporate moral initiative. Part 2 Structure of response: the alternatives
  • primary and secondary wants
  • the obligations of corporations and of people within them. Part 3 Corporate size and power: the dangers of corporate leviathans
  • the benefits of multinationals
  • present conditions. Part 4 Cultural and economic diversity: cultural and ideological differences
  • diverse economic conditions
  • sketch of possible responses. Part 5 Corporate mobility: the mobility of products
  • evasion of control
  • the mobility of resources. Part 6 Political manipulation: the role of corporations in weapons transfers
  • the case of Panama
  • the role of governments. Part 7 South Africa: the moral wrong of apartheid
  • the role of corporations in South Africa
  • the case for corporate withdrawal from South Africa. Conclusion: current barriers to moral accountability
  • prospects for the near future
  • a mature moral order.

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