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.
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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