Ethical Reflections on the Challenges Facing International Businesses in Developing Areas

Frederick Bird

Chapter 1 in International Businesses and the Challenges of Poverty in the Developing World, 2004, pp 14-33 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We now live in a world where the lives of all peoples are inextricably inter-connected. We have been brought closer to each other through modern systems of transportation and telecommunication. Commercially the links between people grow in number and complexity. Elements in the products we use, the clothes we wear and the food we eat may come from quite diverse places all over the earth. The volume of trade between countries has greatly increased. We are interconnected in other ways as well. A disease like AIDS begins in one part of the world and within a short span of years it has spread throughout the globe. How humans utilize natural resources in one part of the world may well affect those in other parts. Particles from insecticides used in the tropics eventually appear in rain and snow of arctic areas. Pollution caused by industry and vehicles in urbanized areas ends up disturbing the earth’s atmosphere in ways that affect all humans. We have become interconnected in still other ways. Humans have migrated all over the earth. Vast numbers of people have moved from rural to urban areas, from continent to continent, in the process bringing with them parts of their varied cultures and traditions. Religiously humans are now more inter-mixed then ever. Christians and Muslims, especially, as well as Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jews are now found all over the world.1

Keywords: Social Capital; Business Ethic; International Business; Business Practice; Natural Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230522503_2

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