This case study discusses the relevance of social and political factors in corporate decision making under a repressive regime, and the repercussions of those corporate decisions. The case study is divided in two parts. The first part focuses on IBM’s business decisions to continue its...

The debate about the appropriate standards for upstream corporate social responsibility (CSR) of multinational corporations (MNCs) has been on the public and academic agenda for some three decades. The debate originally focused narrowly on "contract responsibility" of MNCs for monitoring of...