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Ethical Issues of Multinational Companies in Africa: host country and industry characteristics

아프리카에서 다국적기업의 윤리경영

  • Kim, Jai-June (Department of International Trade, Kookmin University)
  • 김재준 (국민대학교 경상대학 국제통상학과)
  • Received : 2019.04.24
  • Accepted : 2019.06.30
  • Published : 2019.06.30
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Abstract

This paper reviews and analyzes the ethical issues of multinational corporations (MNCs) in Africa. First, we find that the transparency and institutions of a host country have a negative relationship with the number of ethical violations of the MNCs. Second, this covers the effects of industry characteristics on each category of ethical issues such as the human rights and the environment. Based on the database of "Ethical Consumer", we show that the Auto, Chemical, Finance, and Telecommunication industries are more likely to violate human rights issues, and that Mining, Oil, Cosmetics, and Chemical industries are more likely to pollute the environments. Further, the country of origin does matter: the US and Asian companies are more likely to be involved with the business ethics violations than are their European counterparts.

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I gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Kookmin University in 2018.

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