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36Back to Heuristic Questions: A Manager-Friendly Approach to Resolving Cross Cultural Ethical ConflictsProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 18 39-44. 2007.Management practitioners and scholars have worked diligently to identify methods for ethical decision making in international contexts. In this paper we offer sixheuristic questions to help corporate managers resolve cross-cultural ethical conflicts involving questionable business practices in a host country. Our aim is to provide practical guidance for discussion within a firm on whether or not to do business the firm’s way, the host’s way or refrain from doing business there (the highway).
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9An Essay on When to Fully Disclose in Sales Relationships: Applying Two Practical Guidelines for Addressing Truth-Telling ProblemsJournal of Business Ethics 16 (5): 545-560. 1997.Salespeople have a moral obligation to prospect/customer, company and self. As such, they continually encounter truth-telling dilemmas. "lgnorance" and "conflict" often block the path to morally correct sales behaviors. Academics and practitioners agree that adoption of ethical codes is the most effective measure for encouraging ethical sales behaviors. Yet no ethical code has been offered which can be conveniently used to overcome the unique circumstances that contribute to the moral dilemmas o…Read more
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6Exxon at Grand Bois, LouisianaBusiness Ethics Quarterly 15 (3): 385-408. 2005.In the early 1990s, managers at Exxon decided to seek lower cost disposal in Louisiana for oil-field wastes declared hazardous in Alabama. This decision resulted in injuries to the residents of Grand Bois, Louisiana; the disposal company; Exxon; and the oil industry in the state. Given the need for business and society to manage business operations for mutual benefit, it is essential to understand why businesses injure the public so that similar incidents do not happen again. The authors use thr…Read more
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14Exxon at Grand Bois, Louisiana: A Three-Level Analysis of Management Decision Making and Corporate ConductBusiness Ethics Quarterly 15 (3): 385-408. 2005.In the early 1990s, managers at Exxon decided to seek lower cost disposal in Louisiana for oil-field wastes declared hazardous in Alabama. This decision resulted in injuries to the residents of Grand Bois, Louisiana; the disposal company; Exxon; and the oil industry in the state. Given the need for business and society to manage business operations for mutual benefit, it is essential to understand why businesses injure the public so that similar incidents do not happen again. The authors use thr…Read more
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3Back to Heuristic Questions: A Manager-Friendly Approach to Resolving Cross Cultural Ethical ConflictsProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 18 39-44. 2007.Management practitioners and scholars have worked diligently to identify methods for ethical decision making in international contexts. In this paper we offer sixheuristic questions to help corporate managers resolve cross-cultural ethical conflicts involving questionable business practices in a host country. Our aim is to provide practical guidance for discussion within a firm on whether or not to do business the firm’s way, the host’s way or refrain from doing business there
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6Two practical guidelines for resolving truth-telling problemsJournal of Business Ethics 13 (11): 899-912. 1994.
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Freedom and solidarity in Sartre and SimonAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (4): 569-584. 1996.
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28Multinational Enterprise Decision Principles for Dealing With Cross Cultural Ethical ConflictsJournal of Business Ethics 31 (1): 77-94. 2001.Cross cultural ethical conflicts are a major challenge for managers of multinational corporations (MNEs) when an MNE's business practices and a host country's practices differ. We develop a set of decision principles to help MNE managers deal with these conflicts and illustrate with examples of ethical conflicts faced by MNEs doing business in contemporary Russia (DeGeorge, 1994). We discuss the generalizability of the principles by comparing them to the Donaldson (1989) and Buller and Kohls (19…Read more
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18The effect of published reports of unethical conduct on stock pricesJournal of Business Ethics 15 (12): 1321-1330. 1996.
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44Ethical Standards for Business LobbyingBusiness Ethics Quarterly 7 (3): 117-129. 1997.Rather than being inherently evil, business lobbying is a socially responsible activity which needs to be restrained by ethical standards. To be effective in a business environment, traditional ethical standards need to be translated into language which business persons can speak comfortably. Economical explanations must also be available to explain why ethical standards are appropriate in business. Eight such standards and their validating arguments are proposed with examples showing their use.…Read more
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12The Hope and Limits of Legal Optimism: A Comment on the Theories of Orts and Nesteruk Regarding the Impact of Law on Corporate EthicsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 9 (4): 677-688. 1999.Joining the dialogue on the relationship between the law and business ethics, Jeffrey Nesteruk and Eric W. Orts have offeredconceptions of the law as a positive influence rather than a negative curb on corporate behavior. While these “legal optimists” pursue anoble end in promoting higher ethical standards for corporations through the law, they may be overly optimistic in their suggestion that these more skillfully wielded legal models will influence corporate behavior for the better. Reviewing …Read more
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13The Hope and Limits of Legal Optimism: A Comment on the Theories of Orts and Nesteruk Regarding the Impact of Law on Corporate EthicsBusiness Ethics Quarterly 9 (4): 677-688. 1999.Abstract:Joining the dialogue on the relationship between the law and business ethics, Jeffrey Nesteruk and Eric W. Orts have offered conceptions of the law as a positive influence rather than a negative curb on corporate behavior. While these “legal optimists” pursue a noble end in promoting higher ethical standards for corporations through the law, they may be overly optimistic in their suggestion that these more skillfully wielded legal models will influence corporate behavior for the better.…Read more
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40Exxon at Grand Bois, LouisianaBusiness Ethics Quarterly 15 (3): 385-408. 2005.In the early 1990s, managers at Exxon decided to seek lower cost disposal in Louisiana for oil-field wastes declared hazardous in Alabama. This decision resulted in injuries to the residents of Grand Bois, Louisiana; the disposal company; Exxon; and the oil industry in the state. Given the need for business and society to manage business operations for mutual benefit, it is essential to understand why businesses injure the public so that similar incidents do not happen again. The authors use thr…Read more