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Research Assignment Essay – Ethical Analysis
The purpose of this task is to identify and evaluate ethical issues and recognise legal issues related to multinational enterprises. You will construct arguments based on principles and theories of ethical reasoning.
It is in the form of an argumentative essay of maximum 2000 words but you can go over the word count by 10%. Submission must be made via SafeAssign.
Essay Question:
Find an action of a multinational company operating in a developing country and argue, using at least two ethical theories, whether this action is ethical or not. Your work should be in the format of an argumentative essay, i.e. you should argue for OR against the action of the company being ethical. In your introduction of the situation which led to the action, you need to determine whether the action was legal or illegal.
Criteria:
1. Quality of critical reflection and argument with reference to relevant ethical theories and recognition of legal issues
2. Degree of clarity of arguments presented and ability to analyse and draw valid conclusions
3. The extent of research
4. The overall structure of the essay with reference to conventional academic writing criteria
Resources
Use online resource of the Santa Clara University, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ for the ethical theories and all library resources for your chosen example. Please use peer reviewed journals and books.
Suggested Topics
Brazil and EU retread tyres WTO and Mercosur
Zimbabwe and South Africa: introduction of barriers to trade to stimulate local growth
Ghana and EU raising tariffs on European tomatoes and chickens
EU strict health standards on import of shelled groundnut exports from African regions
US subsidies of cotton and India World Trade Organisation rules
US and Mexico NAFTA agreement export of corn and obesity
The 1994 Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and restriction of trade flows
US and EU proposed free trade agreement and the exclusion of health providers
Australia and Gulf Cooperation Council proposed free trade agreement and the exclusion of live cattle exports
I have provide past assignment just for reference.