Ethical Issues in Doing Business in China

1980’li ve 1990’lı yıllarda bazı uluslararası kuruluşlar, Çin’in temel insan hakları konusunda bazı ihlallerde bulunduğunu belirtmişlerdir. Fakat, Çin’in bu ihlallerini eleştiren birçok ülkenin çok uluslu şirketleri 1990’lı ve 2000’li yıllarda Çin’e hatırı sayılır miktarlarda yatırımda bulunmuşlardır. Bu şirketler, değerli fırsat, teşvik ve ucuz işgücünden dolayı üretim faaliyetlerini Çin’e kaydırmışlardır. Şirketler bu hamlelerini, Çin hükümetinin kendi halkına karşı olan ilgisizliğini ve bu ülkedeki ihlalleri dikkate almadan yapmışlardır. Bu gerçeğe rağmen, şirketlerin ürünlerini düşük maliyetler ile üretmek için ek yatırımlarını Çin’de yapmaları doğru mudur ve etik midir? Bu çalışmada, bahsedilen konular incelenmekte ve uluslararası firmaların perspektifinden bazı önerilerde bulunulmaktadır.

Çin'de İş Yapmanın Etik Sorunları

In the 1980s and 1990s China was cited by some of the international organizations because of its violations of basic human rights. However, multinational firms from most of the countries criticizing the China’s violations began to do considerable amount of investments to China in the 1990s and 2000s. They moved their manufacturing activities to China because of valuable opportunities, incentives, and cheap work force. They pursued this action regardless of Chinese government’s carelessness to its own citizens. Despite this fact, should these firms do additional investment in order to produce their products with lower levels of costs? Is this an ethical decision? In this study, this issue is argued out and some points are recommended from the perspective of international firms.

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