"From the Ninth Conference on Business Ethics sponsored by the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College." "This volume contains the best of the conference papers ... in 1992"--Introd.

Toward a transnational code of business conduct -- Equity, U.N. development efforts, and the code of conduct on transnational corporations -- Incorporating "Just Profit" guidelines in transnational codes -- Globalism and national interest: The implications for corporate social responsibility -- Ethical issues in emerging financial markets -- The ethics of development: An examination of what the multinational corporation can--and cannot do--for the Third world -- Patents in the pharmaceutical sector: The case of developing countries -- The problem of sustainability: Traditional African or Islamic land ethics or Western technological approaches? -- Bifurcated development and multinational corporate responsibility.