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EM. 213.32 6 Winter 2013. ch 5 text. your thoughts. The Corporation limited-liability moral agency corporate responsibility broadening responsibility institutionalizing ethics. Limited Liability. What is it? Why does this exist? What effect does it have?. enthusiasm. reluctance. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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EM
213.32
6
Winter 2015
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Reading Assessment 1 Notes
• general comment:• writing that is below a professional standard
is getting in the way of good analysis and ideas
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Reading Assessment 1 Notes
• careless mistakes were surprisingly common• confusion or inconsistency about capitalization
• “Target” and “target”
• “states” vs “United States”
• Confusion about apostraphes• “customer’s”
• “Canadian’s”
• footnotes in different font than body of essay
• incorrect name of course on cover page
• body of essay not behind cover page
• bibliography not behind body of essay
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Reading Assessment 1 Notes
Two big problems1. some (not all) did not follow
Chicago/Turabian rules for footnotes and bibliography
• this is a basic requirement
• if this is not done in the next Reading Assessment, the maximum mark you can get is 5 out of 10
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Reading Assessment 1 Notes
Two big problems2. some (not all) have grammar problems
• if I’ve written “grammar” anywhere on your paper, or suggested you work with the tutor in the library, you need to do this
• your writing needs to improve before you will be able to work in business in English
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Reading Assessment 1 Notes
• “brainwashing”• Skinnerian Conditioning• training
• If a business “does what comes naturally”:• Does that mean it’s behaving ethically?• Does it mean it’s behaving unethically?
• How do we judge a business with mixed motives?
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ch 5 text your thoughts
The Corporation limited-liability moral agency corporate responsibility broadening responsibility institutionalizing ethics
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enthusiasm
Limited Liability
What is it?
Why does this exist?
What effect does it have?
reluctance
http://www.economist.com/node/347323
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Moral Agency
What does this mean?
What is the problem?
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Moral Agency
What is “moral responsibility?” being able to make moral decisions being held accountable
• for past actions
• for care & treatment of others the obligations of a role in a society
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Moral Agency
Can corporations make decisions? Are moral decisions different than others?
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Moral AgencyYOU.
BOUGHT 228 MILLION POUNDS OF RESPONSIBLYGROWN, ETHICALLY TRADE COFFEE LAST YEAREverything we do, you do. You stop by for a coffee.
And just by doing that, you let Starbucks buy morecoffee from farmers who are good to their workerscommunity and planet. It’s using our size for good.
And you make it all possible Well done, you.
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Moral Agency
vanishing individual responsibility individuals
• refuse
groups• diffuse
structure gives distance• investor board
• manager staff
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Corporate Responsibility
arguments utilitarian rights
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Corporate Responsibility
only profit maximization• or
social responsibility
“the social contract”
“externalities”
“social license to operate”
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Corporate Responsibility
“the promissory relationship” what does it
? require
? forbid
? permit
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Broadening Responsibility
the arguments against invisible-hand role-of-government inept-custodian materialization-of-society
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Institutionalizing Ethics
Should they exist?
What should be in them?
How should they be developed?
How should they be enforced?
“settled economic life”
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Capitalism
today’s challenges productivity short term focus manufacturing decline attitudes towards work instability unsustainability
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Capitalism Now
criticisms1. persistence of
• inequality
• poverty
2. rise of oligopolies• reduced competition
• reduced social mobility
3. competition• encourages conflict• gives people what they
want
4. destroys traditions
5. unstable
6. drives globalization
7. implicit view (and shaping) of human nature• greed• short-term focus
8. employee’s• alienation• exploitation
9. excessive political, legal & social power• “corporations are not
people”
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Capitalism
criticisms1. persistence of
• inequality inequality of opportunity
• poverty
responses government causes poverty capitalism can be softened benefits outweigh harms
• better than the alternatives
Dickens
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GDP
source: World Bank
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inflation-adjusted per capita GDP
$0
$5,000
$10,000
$15,000
$20,000
$25,000
0
500
AD
1000
AD
1500
AD
2000
AD
Angus Madison, Historical Statistics of the World Economy: 1-2008 AD http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/Historical_Statistics/horizontal-file_02-2010.xls
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inflation-adjusted per capita GDPworld
Angus Madison, Historical Statistics of the World Economy: 1-2008 AD http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/Historical_Statistics/horizontal-file_02-2010.xls
Japan
Canada
$0
$10,000
$20,000
$30,000
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
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world
India
China
Japan
Nigeria
Canada
$0
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
$2,000
$4,000
$6,000
$8,000
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$0
$4,000
$8,000
$12,000
$16,000
$20,000
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
South Korea
North Korea
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Portugal
Hungary
world
$2,000
$4,000
$6,000
$8,000
$10,000
$12,000
$14,000
1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000
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world per capita GDP
The World Bank World Development Indicators & Global Development Finance http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
$0
1820
1840
1860
1880
1900
1920
1940
1960
1980
2000
$2,000
$4,000
$6,000
$8,000
20%
40%
60%
% of GDP derived from trade
world trade in goods
Effects (?) of Globalization
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% living on less than $2/day
World Bank World Development Indicators http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
1980 1990 2000
India
China
Nigeria
BrazilMexico
% li
ving
on
less
than
$2/
day
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Capitalism
criticisms1. persistence of
• inequality
• poverty
2. rise of oligopolies3. implicit view of human nature4. shortcomings of competition5. employee’s
• alienation
• exploitation
natural direction
corporate welfare
modern economy
multinationals
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Multinationals
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Multinationals
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Multinationals
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Multinationals
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Multinationals & Sweatshops
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Multinationals & Sweatshops
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Multinationals & Sweatshops
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Multinationals & Sweatshops
The Economist Jul 29, 2010 “The Next China”
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Multinationals & Child Labour
International Labor Organization International Programme on the Elimination of
Child Labour• 2010 report:
“Accelerating action against Child Labour”
http://www.ilo.org/ipec/lang--en/index.htm
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Multinationals & Child Labour
http://www.ilo.org/ipec/lang--en/index.htm
1.6b children
215m child labourers
53m under 15 0
50m
100m
150m
200m
250m
2000 2004 2008
under 15
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Multinationals & Child Labour
http://www.ilo.org/ipec/lang--en/index.htm
agriculture 129m
services 55m
industry 15m
not defined 16m
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Capitalism
criticisms1. persistence of
• inequality
• poverty
2. rise of oligopolies3. implicit view of human nature4. shortcomings of competition5. employee’s
• alienation
• exploitation
natural direction
corporate welfare
modern economy
multinationals
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Capitalism
criticisms1. persistence of
• inequality
• poverty
2. rise of oligopolies3. implicit view of human nature
• no ideals to aspire to
• reinforces “natural” tendencies
• caricatures society
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Capitalism
criticisms1. persistence of
• inequality
• poverty
2. rise of oligopolies3. implicit view of human nature
4. shortcomings of competition prevents cooperation
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Capitalism
criticisms1. persistence of
• inequality
• poverty
2. rise of oligopolies3. implicit view of human nature
4. shortcomings of competition
5. employee’s• alienation
• exploitation
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Capitalism
criticisms1. persistence of
• inequality
• poverty
2. rise of oligopolies3. implicit view of human nature
4. shortcomings of competition
5. employee’s• alienation
• exploitation
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“Wealth” and “Happiness”
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The Pew Global Attitudes ProjectQ.20 What do you think about the growing trade and business ties between [survey country] and other countries. Do you think it is a very good thing, somewhat good, somewhat bad or a very bad thing for
our country?
Pew Research Center 2007 World Publics Welcome Global Trade - But Not Immigration http://www.pewglobal.org/files/pdf/258.pdf /
Canada
Japan
India
China
Nigeria
very good somewhat good somewhat bad very badgood bad
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The Pew Global Attitudes ProjectQ.18a Please tell me whether you completely agree, mostly agree, mostly disagree or completely disagree with the following statements:
a. Most people are better off in a free market economy, even though some people are rich and some are poor.
Pew Research Center 2007 World Publics Welcome Global Trade - But Not Immigration http://www.pewglobal.org/files/pdf/258.pdf /
Canada
Japan
India
China
Nigeria
completely agree mostly agree agree disagreemostly disagreecompletely disagree
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Capitalism
my cricitisms utilitarian?
• really?
instability disposability consumer-only debt all-encompassing works against
• work as sacred
• generosity
• Year of Jubilee
my view Hindu gods Maddison constructed
• freedom and norms
• changeable
• responsible
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All-Encompassing
Roman Empire all of society
• authority
• relationships
• work
• commerce
• belief
understood within the idea of “the empire”
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All-Encompassing
Medieval Europe all of society
• authority
• relationships
• work
• commerce
• belief
understood within the idea of “the church”
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All-Encompassing
Fascism all of society
• authority
• relationships
• work
• commerce
• belief
understood within the idea of
“the state” or “the nation”
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All-Encompassing
modern capitalism all of society
• authority
• relationships
• work
• commerce
• belief
understood within the idea of “the market”
the church as consumer item
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All-Encompassing
empire
medieval Europe
fascism
modern capitalism
all of life captive to an overarching idea of what a society is
so, saying “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God’s” remains an outsider’s position
“My kingdom is not of this world.”
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Capitalism
works against• work as sacred
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
Genesis 2All hard work brings a profit…
Proverbs 14
So I saw that there is nothing better for a man than to enjoy his work...
Ecclesiastes 3
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Capitalism
works against• generosity
Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure--pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.
Luke 6
a generous God a generous response
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Capitalism
works against• Year of Jubilee
This fiftieth year is sacred—it is a time of freedom and of celebration when everyone will receive back their original property, and slaves will return home to their families.
Leviticus 25
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My View
Lakshmi
Kali
Shiva
Hindu gods
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Agency agentprinciple
If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished.
If…an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.
Exodus 21
servants in parables
I think we’re responsible for the actions of our money.
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ch 5 articles
Cassidy The Greed Cycle
Orlando Ethics of Corporate Downsizing
De George Ethical Dilemmas for Multinational Enterprise
Camenish Business Ethics: On Getting to the Heart of the Matter
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The Greed Cycle
interesting Adam Smith quote “Negligence and profusion, therefore, must
always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company [in which the owners aren’t also the managers].”
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The Greed Cycle
a pretty good blow-by-blow repeat of the 1920’s cycle “corporate raiders” became +
• as if pirates became the navy
rewards & punishment• truth, lies & spin
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The Greed Cycle
role of politics & accounting options accounting dodges
• recording dubious revenue
• not recording liabilities
• shifting revenues or expenses through time between capital and operating
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The Greed Cycle
the focus on shareholder value no discussion of what “value” is
• becomes = to current stock price
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The Greed Cycle
“impersonal” forces supposedly driven to actions
• focus on motives = exoneration
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Corporate Downsizing
? moral primacy of shareholder risk $ vs. time
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Corporate Downsizing
fiduciary duties not same in all situations not absolute “unstated contracts”
• who decides what they are?
• which has primacy?
• how are they changed?
• what if parties unequal?
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Corporate Downsizing
ownership ?=? investment investors expect ethical behaviour?
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Corporate Downsizing
utilitarian does it really benefit company? should this be the only consideration?
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Corporate Downsizing
legitimate? survival of firm if uncontrollable, result can’t be fair actual situations owner’s risk
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Corporate Downsizing
investors expect ethical behaviour is this expectation voluntary? obligations of agents
• responsibilities of principles
agentprinciple
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Business Ethics: On Getting to the Heart of the Matter
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Heart of the Matter
not specific to business constraints “charitable” responsibilities
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Heart of the Matter
what does business actually do? provision goods & services profit
Camenisch asserts: moral of provision > moral profits
• Are they really goods?
• Are they really services?
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Heart of the Matter
business as custodian natural resources
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Heart of the Matter
business as dominator culture freedom creativity individuality
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Heart of the Matter
Camenisch limits business only to
• provision of goods & services
• creation of profits
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Heart of the Matter
Camenisch ignores
• work
• communal activity
• creativity
• passing on to children
• saving/borrowing
• generator of social wealth
• potential of support for the poor
• brake against war
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Heart of the Matter
Camenisch ignores
• debt
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Multinationals
both hope & scourge
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Multinationals
1. can’t simply equate US norms = ethical standards
but don’t have to abandon idea of norms
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Multinationals
2. proposed1. no intentional direct harm2. more good than harm3. contribute to host’s development4. respect employee’s human rights5. pay fair share of taxes6. respect cultural norms if…7. just background institutions
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Multinationals
3. valid critiques specific fact-based
4. lack of adequate “background institutions”
make ethical norms more relevant
5. host governments not absolved
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Multinationals
how to implement?
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