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Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Strategy
Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Strategy
Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Sustainability, and Strategy
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THIS CHAPTER WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND:
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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY BUSINESS ETHICS?
Business Ethics
● Is the application of general ethical principles
to the actions and decisions of businesses
and the conduct of their personnel.
● Are not materially different from ethical
principles in general because business
actions have to be judged in the context of
society’s standards of right and wrong.
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CORE CONCEPTS
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WHERE DO ETHICAL STANDARDS COME
FROM—ARE THEY UNIVERSAL OR DEPENDENT
ON LOCAL NORMS?
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THE SCHOOL OF
ETHICAL UNIVERSALISM
Ethical Universalism
● Holds that common understandings across
multiple cultures and countries about what
constitutes right and wrong give rise to
universal ethical standards that apply to all
societies, all firms, and all businesspeople.
Effect on Business Ethics
● Whether a business-related action is right or
wrong is judged by universal standards.
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CORE CONCEPT
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THE SCHOOL OF
ETHICAL RELATIVISM
Ethical Relativism
● Holds that differing beliefs, customs, and
behavioral norms across countries and
cultures give rise to multiple sets of standards
of what is ethically right or wrong.
Effect on Business Ethics
● Whether business-related actions are right or
wrong depends on local ethical standards.
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CORE CONCEPT
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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EXAMPLES OF ETHICAL RELATIVISM ISSUES
Variations in
Ethical Standards
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ILLUSTRATION IKEA’s Global Supplier Standards:
CAPSULE 9.1 Maintaining Low Costs While Fighting
the Root Causes of Child Labor
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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CORE CONCEPT
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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INTEGRATIVE SOCIAL CONTRACTS THEORY
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APPLICATION OF INTEGRATED SOCIAL
CONTRACTS THEORY TO MULTINATIONAL
BUSINESS
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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HOW AND WHY ETHICAL STANDARDS IMPACT
THE TASKS OF CRAFTING AND EXECUTING
STRATEGY
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CONSEQUENCES OF ETHICALLY
QUESTIONABLE STRATEGIES
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DRIVERS OF UNETHICAL STRATEGIES AND
BUSINESS BEHAVIOR
Faulty Oversight
and Self Dealing
Unethical
Pressure for Short- Strategies
term Performance and Business
Behaviors
A Weak or Corrupt
Ethical Environment
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WHAT ARE THE DRIVERS OF UNETHICAL
STRATEGIES AND BUSINESS BEHAVIOR?
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CORE CONCEPT
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ILLUSTRATION How Novo Nordisk Puts Its Ethical
CAPSULE 9.2 Principles into Practice
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WHY SHOULD COMPANY STRATEGIES BE
ETHICAL?
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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FIGURE 9.1 The Costs Companies Incur When Ethical Wrongdoing Is Discovered
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STRATEGY, CORPORATE SOCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY, AND EVIRONMENTAL
SUSTAINABILITY
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CORE CONCEPT
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FIGURE 9.2
The Five Components
of a Corporate Social
Responsibility Strategy
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ILLUSTRATION Burt’s Bees: A Strategy Based on
CAPSULE 9.3 Corporate Social Responsibility
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CORE CONCEPT
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FIGURE 9.3 The Triple Bottom Line: Excelling on Three Measures of Company Performance
Profit People
Planet
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ILLUSTRATION TOMS’s Well-Balanced
CAPSULE 9.4 Triple Bottom Line
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TABLE 9.1 A Selection of Companies Recognized for Their Triple-Bottom-Line
Performance in 2013
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WHAT DO WE MEAN BY SUSTAINABILITY AND
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES?
Sustainability
● Is the relationship of a firm to its environment
and its use of natural resources.
Sustainable Business Practices
● Are those practices of a firm that meet the
needs of the present without compromising
the ability to meet the needs of the future.
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CORE CONCEPT
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CRAFTING CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
AND SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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THE MORAL CASE FOR CSR AND
ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE
BUSINESS PRACTICES
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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THE BUSINESS CASE FOR CSR AND
ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE
BUSINESS PRACTICES
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COMBATING THE EVASION OF CSR AND
SOCIALLY HARMFUL BUSINESS PRACTICES
Increased public
awareness of misdeeds
of bad behavior by firms
Harmful and
Increased legislation and Unethical
regulation to correct and Business
punish firms Actions and
Behaviors
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLE
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