Author: Henry Kyambalesa

Publisher: Jain Publishing Company

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0875730876

This book is designed to explore the social demands, challenges and imperatives associated with conducting business operations across national borders. Its content is predicated upon the following basic premises:Cross-border business operators have a moral obligation to seek socially beneficial results along with economically beneficial results in their policies, decisions and actionsCross-border business operations need to be conducted in ways that are consistent with host countries' commonly honored ethical standardsCross-border business owners and managers, like their host-country counterparts, have an express duty to comply with existing laws, rules and regulationsCross-border business operators need to be responsive to the needs, rights, concerns, and expectations of customers in all the countries where their operations are undertakenCross-border business operators have a moral obligation to conduct their operations in ways that have negligible or no potential to exacerbate the depreciation of the quality of the natural environment in their host countriesThe need to develop sound relations with all the external groups in their host countries which have a stake in their corporate policies, programs, and overall existence is an imperative cross-border business entities can shirk or slight only at their own peril.Mr. Kyambalesa is an adjunct member of the MBA faculty in the School for Professional Studies at Regis University, and an independent Business and Management researcher and consultant. He is the author of several other books on business innovation and competitiveness, small business management and entrepreneurship, general management, marketing management, technological development, and economic development.