Ethical Issues in Cross Cultural Management

International companies are being pressurized by different groups of people, mainly from their stakeholders, regarding social and ethical issues. The case study 'Polaroid in and out of South Africa' (Beauchamp, 1998) leads us to the question: is it moral or not, when trading in a foreign country, to participate in immoral actions to survive"? First, the words morality and ethics have to be defined. Morality can be defined, as "the standards that an individual or a group has about what is right and wrong, or good and evil." (Velasquez, 1982, p8). …