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The value-added approach to business ethics: ethical reflections on the challenges facing international business in developing areas

Der Value-Added-Ansatz: ethische Reflexionen zu den Herausforderungen transnationaler Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern
[journal article]

Bird, Frederick

Abstract

"Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht die Herausforderungen international tätiger Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern, indem eine alternative Sicht in Bezug auf Entwicklung, Unternehmensstrategie und ethische Fragen herausgearbeitet wird. Für diesen Zweck wird eine institutionelle entwicklungstheoretis... view more

"Der vorliegende Artikel untersucht die Herausforderungen international tätiger Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern, indem eine alternative Sicht in Bezug auf Entwicklung, Unternehmensstrategie und ethische Fragen herausgearbeitet wird. Für diesen Zweck wird eine institutionelle entwicklungstheoretische Perspektive eingenommen und die Bedeutung von 'assets' jenseits von Kostenminimierungsstrategien unterstrichen. Es werden zwei ethisch-orientierte Ansätze gegenübergestellt. eine auf Benchmarks bezogene Lesart von Unternehmensstrategien einerseits und der hier vertretene 'Value-Added-Ansatz' andererseits. Der Artikel verdeutlicht, wie international tätige Unternehmen einen über einzelwirtschaftliche Aspekte hinausgehenden Beitrag in Entwicklungsländern leisten können, indem im besonderen Maße auf die Bedeutung von Human-, Sozial- und natürlichem Kapital eingegangen wird." (Autorenreferat)... view less


"This essay examines challenges facing international businesses in developing areas in relation to alternative views of development, business strategy, and ethics. It adopts an institutional view of development and favours asset development rather than cost minimization business strategies. The essa... view more

"This essay examines challenges facing international businesses in developing areas in relation to alternative views of development, business strategy, and ethics. It adopts an institutional view of development and favours asset development rather than cost minimization business strategies. The essay contrasts ethical strategies that primarily operate in keeping with benchmarks to those that seek to add value. Using a variety of examples, the essay makes a case for a value-added approach. The essay explores how internationally connected businesses can add or deplete economic values gauged in relation not only to productive and financial capital but also in relation to human, social, and natural capital. The essay argues that international businesses can foster or frustrate development depending in large part on the extent to which they aim to strengthen their own assets, broadly understood, and those of their immediate stakeholders." (author's abstract)... view less

Keywords
transnational relations; business ethics; multinational corporations; capital; value-orientation; human capital; resources; international cooperation; strategic management; benchmarking; development policy; investment; strategy; action orientation; developing country

Classification
Sociology of Developing Countries, Developmental Sociology
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Sociology of Economics

Method
applied research; descriptive study; basic research

Document language
English

Publication Year
2003

Page/Pages
p. 148-169

Journal
Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 4 (2003) 2

ISSN
1439-880X

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications


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