Transcript When ethics travel

When ethics travel
The global environment
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
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 the 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.
Is bribery tipping?
Looking at the company-type
Foreign 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
Global Type
-Dominance of global over any national
From the ISCT perspective?
Foreign Country Type
Empire Type
Interconnection Type
Global Type
Values Map