To remain competitive and ensure the survival of the enterprise, key expatriate executives are being compelled to engage in business practices that are deemed unethical in many parts of the West, but are an accepted way of doing business in other countries. To make matters even more serious and complicated for these U.S. enterprises, the Federal Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other recent legislation prohibits American companies from bribing officials of foreign governments. In response to a series of corporate bribery scandals involving foreign government officials during the 1970s, the FCPA was enacted in 1977 following inquiries by the U.S. Senate and the Securities and Exchange Commission, at which time Congress became concerned that disclosures of corrupt corporate practices seriously undermined public confidence in the business community and harmed America's image abroad (Diersen, 1999).
Clearly, though, the legislation has not had all of the effect that was intended: "For more than a decade, Diagnostic Products Corp.'s employees in China bribed doctors to buy laboratory-testing kits from the Los Angeles company. In May the company paid the price: U.S. authorities fined Diagnostic Products $2 million for violating U.S. antibribery laws" (p. A1). Old ways die hard, though, and bribery and questionable business practices are a reality in many parts of...
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