Domènec Melé
Imagine you are the general manager of a Spanish company with hotels in the Caribbean. On your first trip there, you discover candidates for cleaning staff at your hotel are required to have pregnancy tests. It’s legal, and no one seems to mind, but it occurs to you that women could be having abortions to get jobs. What do you do? In his new book, Business Ethics in Action, Domènec Melé poses dilemmas like this in a bid to get the new generation of managers, executives and consultants thinking about how to deal ethically.
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Antonio Argandoña, Ricardo Morel Berendson
When we talk about corruption, we tend to think about the public sector, forgetting that if the practice exists, it is because a second party, normally in the private realm, takes part in or consents to it. This paper reviews the concept of corruption from a business standpoint and proposes a road map for fighting it in the private sector.
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Francesc Prior, Antonio Argandoña
Do financial institutions in developing countries have any specific social responsibilities? IESE’s Francesc Prior and Antonio Argandoña would say yes – particularly when considering that lack of financial depth is an important obstacle to economic growth in less developed nations. Here the authors present the underlying causes of low financial depth and provide examples of financial industry best practices in three emerging economies: Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
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