The Degree of Cross-Country Variability in Paying Bribes and Kickbacks

question 4

Multiple Choice

The degree of cross-country variability in paying bribes and kickbacks to grease business transactions

• A)violates ethical principles of right and wrong in all countries.
• B)is ethically acceptable according to the principle of ethical universalism and ethically unacceptable according to the principle of ethical relativism.
• C)is acceptable to immoral managers but not to amoral managers.
• D)is one of the thorniest ethical problems that multinational companies face because paying bribes is normal and customary in some countries and ethically or legally forbidden in others.
• E)is more acceptable in dealing with a company's suppliers than in dealing with a company's customers.

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