Dq1 “Multinational Companies”
Please answer questions 1- 8 below
Read the Marianne Jennings article: “Why An International Code of Business Ethics Would be Good for Business” posted in DocSharing. Identify a public company that operates in more than one country.
1. How would the recommendations from the article make it easier or more difficult for your chosen company to conduct multinational business?
2.What cultural or ethical issues would that company need to address? 111
“According to John McNamara [National Director, International Assurance Services, for Deloitte & Touche LLP], business issues vary from country to country and by industry, but some matters are consistent. ‘ Local laws and regulations, the political climate, the local labor market, the availability of financing and natural resources, infrastructure, market conditions, competition, and tax incentives” are some major considerations, he says:
‘Underlying all these, however, is adequately understanding the local culture and business customs — knowing how to get things done and whom to trust.'”
Doing Business Overseas Presents Hazards and Hopes. Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.
3. What ethical situations might a U.S. company face in a foreign locale?
4. What ethical situations might a foreign company face in a U.S. locale?
DQ2 ” Yahoo v. The French Guys — Our 1st Amendment Rights In Cyberspace”
The American Nazi Party established a website on Yahoo promoting Nazi propaganda and selling Nazi memorabilia from World War II. In the country of France, there is a specific central government law that forbids the promotion of Nazi propaganda and the sale of Nazi memorabilia. This led to three attempts by the French government to force Yahoo to take this website down:
5. The French government asked Yahoo to take the website down. Yahoo refused on the grounds that is was within the Nazi Party’s First Amendment rights.
6. A group of French Jewish students filed suit in a French court, and obtained a court order directing Yahoo to take the website down. The French court order was served on Yahoo, but Yahoo refused to comply with this order from a foreign court.
7. The French government then filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California seeking an order to force Yahoo to take the website down. The court refused on the grounds that the American Nazi Party was acting within their First Amendment rights, and not subject to French laws.
This article: Nazi hunting: How France first “civilized” the Internet is available on the Internet.
So the question becomes: “How will our First Amendment rights survive in cyberspace?” In 1996, and again in 1998, the Clinton Administration passed laws attempting to limit child pornography on the Internet. In both cases, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit that went to the Supreme Court which ruled that both laws were unconstitutional, in violation of the First Amendment. China hammered Google’s Internet searches by maintaining control of all servers accessible by hard wire, and forced Google to edit the result of their searches. Answer the question below.
8. How can our First Amendment rights of freedom of speech on the Internet be forced to comply with foreign legal rules?
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