Summary
Case A: Presents three strategic options considered by a fictitious international oil and gas corporation to address the issue of climate change: fight against action, wait and see, and dynamic proactive.
Teaching objectives
Assess critical business strategies on global environmental risks and underlying ethical dilemmas; Acknowledge influence of business on scientific and political dimensions of society, and ethical responsibility as an inherent dimension of business global strategy; Reflect on ethical management of this influence; Reflect on the evolution of business responsibility.
Keywords
- Business ethics
- Climate change
- Oil industry
- Ethical dilemmas
- Global environmental change
- Kyoto protocol
- Social responsibility
- Global strategy. AR2001
- RD0501
