Exam 16: Defining Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in the International Marketplace

Donaldson and Dunfee refer to those situations in which unethical behavior in your home country is considered acceptable in another culture as ________________________.

A conflict of tradition occurs when an American businessperson is expected to present a gift to his Japanese distributor partners.

An Italian distributor of UK-based Brit-Tel was found to have offered a substantial payment to an Italian telecom official in order to have Brit-Tel's products specified in a government bid.Because Brit-Tel was not directly involved in the scenario,it did not suffer penalties under the UK Bribery Bill.

An ombudsman and protection for whistleblowers are necessary elements for the implementation of a(n)______________.

Codes of conduct stipulating how members of a society are required to act are referred to as ___________________.

Business practices that may be considered unethical in one culture may be acceptable in another.

Governments,not multinational organizations,are responsible for monitoring bribery and corruption.

When determining if a gift given to you is constituted as a bribe or a token of esteem,you should consider ____________________.

Some studies have found that ethical behavior has less impact on corporate performance in the long run than in the short run.

A study between 41 and 86 companies in the UK taken from the FTSE 350 found that ____________________________________.

The adoption of corporate social responsibility programs in Brazil has been attributed to all of these factors except ___________________.

The single main factor that motivates corruption and bribery is monetary gain.

The measures invoked by the UN Convention Against Corruption are mandatory in both private and public sector cases.

Unlike some other developing nations,corporate social responsibility is deeply rooted in the Indian tradition.

The European Commission Union defines corporate social responsibility,or CSR,as _____________________________.

When Liu Jiang does business in Singapore,he is careful not to request any special favors from his local distributors in terms of gifts,contracts,or services.While these behaviors are viewed as nothing more than proper business etiquette at home in China,he knows that it could jeopardize his transactions in Singapore.Liu Jiang practices _____________.

China is only at the beginning of forming a viable CSR philosophy and governance.

When British firm Cogswell LLC was found to have bribed several officials in Myanmar to obtain release of a large shipment of goods held ostensibly for illegal content,it was required by the UK government to pay the penalties invoked by _____________.

The anti-corruption organization based in Germany that measures the extent of corruption and bribery worldwide is ________________.

Curry is astonished.Her firm has never knowingly given or accepted a bribe from any customer or supplier,foreign or domestic.And,her company has strict controls that assure the propriety of all foreign transactions.Yet she is still being severely admonished for violating the FCPA.What did Curry do wrong?