In today’s world, more companies are selling their products globally in an effort to increase their revenue. For example, Johnson and Johnson whose domestic market is in USA now generate more revenue globally than its domestic revenue. The increase in its global business revenue has lead the company building factories strategically in different part of the world so that it will be able to streamline its logistic reaching target market. This can be said to many companies increasing their global business by building plants in other countries away from their local market especially in an undeveloped countries that are poor and corruption are high. All these factories that are been built around the world have led to mangers communicating with one another which can cause cultural conflict. The reason for the conflict is examines in an article called the cultural roots of ethical conflicts in global business.
I grew up in Nigeria where the author wrote is far more corrupt than Finland. “Many of the people inhabiting poorer countries are more concerned with survival than success, the argument goes, and higher ethical standards are often considered a luxury people cannot afford" (Sanchez-Runde, Nardon and Steers 2013). For example, in Nigeria it is highly unlikely to import a product into the country without paying some kind of bribe to officials at the port authority who are paid low wages, and have to supplement their income with bribery for survival. A manger in Nigeria who works for a global industry will factor the cost of the bribery, and add the cost to the clearing of the product from the port authority despite it been an unethical practice. “In fact, recent research shows that cultural differences influence both the ethical business profiles of people from other cultures (Gift et al.2013) and how we interpret and characterize ethical cases and scenarios (Kuntz