Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business
Subtitle: The South African Experience and International Codes Today
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer; Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: August 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780792378938
Subjects: Business Ethics; Science/Mathematics; Economic Development; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Moral and ethical aspects; Republic of South Africa; USA; Economics; International - General; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; South Africa; Development - Economic Development; Corporations, Foreign
First sentence: On the first day of March 1977, the Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, pastor of the Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, made a momentous announcement: twelve major United States multinational corporations with operations in South Africa had voluntarily agreed to abide by a code of conduct governing their operations in that country, with special attention to situation of Black workers (see exhibit 1).