The literatures of business ethics and international business have generally had little influence on each other. Nevertheless, the decline in the power of nation states, the emergence of non-governmental organizations, the proliferation of self-regulatory bodies, and the changing...

The global business environment is increasingly characterized by dynamic interactions among an ever-widening group of actors – public, for-profit and not-for-profit – involved in the provision of such local collective goods as health, education, transportation and communication in emerging...