When ethics travel

The global environment

Looking at the company-typeForeign Country Type

-does not apply home-country concepts to the countries abroad

Empire Type-applies domestic concepts and theories without significant accommodation

Interconnection Type **-we don’t project or defend a national identity of any sort “interconnectiveness of companies transcend the national” Issue of balance between local and global

Global Type-Dominance of global over any national. There is no cultural distinctiveness. The “all knowing multinational” decides

Is bribery tipping?

• Hypernorms:– Principles so fundamental that, by definition,

they serve to evaluate lower-order norms, reaching to the root of what is ethical for humanity. They represent the norms by which all others are to be judged

• Hypernorm of necessary social efficiency: need for institutions and coexistent duties designed to enable people to achieve basic or necessary social goods such as health, education, housing, food, clothing and social justice

Hypernorms

Consistent Norms

Moral Free Space

Illegitimate norms incompatible with hypernorms

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• Consistent Norms

• Every society will have values that reflect its culturally specific situation but would be consistent with the hypernorms.

Is bribery tipping?

Moral Free space:

• Norms that are inconsistent with at least some other legitimate norms existing in other cultures. May be compatible but in tension with hypernorms.

• Unique and strongly held cultural beliefs

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• Illegitimate Norms

• When values or beliefs go beyond what one considers allowable under generally accepted hypernorms, they are considered illegitimate norms.

So…Is bribery tipping?

From the ISCT perspective?

Foreign Country Type

Empire Type

Interconnection Type

Global Type