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In normal international business operations, complications arise in decision-making. Laws help define the broader ethical and social responsibility each company has to the government and its people; however, these are only the minimum requirements and need additional morality tests. Behaviors may not be illegal, but does not mean their actions are considered morally acceptable. Thus, company practices should follow above the legal lines and practice at moral requirements. Thus, an applicable ethical response to both, class two and three corruptions would be severe, while class one corruption would lay in a grey area of concern.
Sectors two and three, fails all three of the ethical principles framework. The utilitarian ethics of common good are not expressed in these types of accounts because taxes are not paid and the best companies do not win out. Instead the company with the most influence wins out leaving the domestic constituency with inferior products and less international taxation. Next, these two actions deny the rights of the parties to free actions because they are forced into action by bribery. Pulling out of contracts or forcing companies to pay customs reduce the party’s freedoms because their jobs are on the line, thus forcing compliance. Furthermore, these actions are not fair or just for all parties involved. Companies that cannot compete with other companies’ bribery are pushed to the periphery of the business world and accordingly loose sales. Thus, action is demanded to counter these two classifications of corruption.
Sector one; however, lays within an ethical grey area. Their practice generally does not hurt the common good and may benefit them. The pertinent constituencies are bolstered because they increa...

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...ause bribery would become less fluent. As punishment goes up the frequency for that crime go down. Effectively, generating new policies debating corruption and creating new oversight and enforcement mechanisms would decrease the rate of bribery. However, companies would rely on governmental efforts to control bribery, possibly creating more bribery in the process. Companies would have to bribe government officials to look into other’s bribery, thus creating more bribery in the process.
The International community has to generate new and improved ways to equal the corruption playing field to Transparency International standards. Yet, greedy individuals and corrupt cultures produce an international business culture where bribery is the norms. Until the cultural norms of bribery are changed, it is this reviews opinion that the propensity to bribe will stay the same.

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