Corporate Conscience and Foreign Divestment Decisions

• Published in: Journal of business ethics Vol. 6; no. 7; pp. 543 - 552
• Main Authors: Singer, A. E., van der Walt, N. T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht D. Reidel Publishing Company 01-10-1987; D. Reidel Pub. Co; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Business; Business ethics; Competitive advantage; Corporate responsibility; Corporate strategies; Corporations; Decision making; Decision theory; Deontological ethics; Divestiture; Divestment; Divestments; Ethics; Factors; Foreign investments; Host country; Moral; Morality; Multinational corporations; Political candidates; Principles; Rationality; Social ethics; Strategic management; Strategic planning; Subsidiary companies
• ISSN: 0167-4544; 1573-0697
• DOI: 10.1007/BF00383745

The rational-agent frame of reference for the analysis of corporate strategic decision-making may be expanded to a moral-agent perspective where decision content is seen as comprising both commercial and ethical factors. Relevant factors may then be classified on the basis of the ethical decision principles to which they relate: rational-egoism, self-referential altruism or deontology. This approach is then applied to the problem of decision support for strategic divestment by MNCs.