The American executive and Colombian violence: Social relatedness and business ethics

✍ Scribed by John H. Barnett

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 785 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4544
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00383701

✦ Synopsis

Three models of the response of American managers both to the violence of Colombian society and to the demands made by the Colombian narcotrafficker are identified: (1) conflict, (2) compartment, and (3) complementarity. The foundations of the models and their managerial consequences are decribed. Finally, the concepts underlying complementarity lead to social relatedness, both a new model of the business and society relationship and a guide for business ethics.

Violence, cocaine and the American manager

Violence is not narcotics's child in Colombia. After