Sunday, January 29, 2012
Assignment #1
My two areas of emphasis are Business and Spanish. I would be interested in exploring international relationships between the United States and spanish speaking countries. In the past decade latin american countries have been the fastest growing international trade partner with the United States. With this increase in trade comes the increase in interaction. Interaction between two entities of the same culture is made simpler by the shared code of ethics that said culture has. However, from one culture to another comes a different definition of that code. With this different definition of what is ethical comes, what is often, unforeseen ethical dilemmas. My idea for a primary question to pose is to determine how we can establish and carry out an international code of ethical conduct between businesses internationally with the U.S. and primarily between Latin American countries and the U.S. With an established code of conduct it is my belief that trust will abound, and it is upon this foundation of trust that every good relationship is forged and maintained. Therefore, trade will grow exponentially and make all involved the beneficiaries.
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Jesse,
ReplyDeleteI believe you have a doable thesis project almost in sight already here, if you define your capstone as an effort to answer the question: "Can we establish a code for ethical business conduct between US and Latin American countries and what would that code look like?" I'm not sure whether you want to establish a code in the legal or diplomatic sense (which would seem less plausible, to me at least) or to try to draft a suggested code of conduct that businesses could rely upon with confidence (which seems like a more promising approach).
At this point, your literature review quickly becomes crucial to establishing whether or not you can accomplish such a project within the framework of a capstone thesis. So get to reading, and keep us posted.