{"id":17751,"date":"2009-06-18T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/blog\/?p=17751"},"modified":"2021-01-07T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T11:47:15","slug":"no-more-ethical-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/no-more-ethical-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Please: No More Ethical Businesses!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pqRight\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/thinking-ape.jpg\" alt=\"thinking ape\" title=\"thinking ape\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18661 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/thinking-ape.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/thinking-ape-150x99.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 280\/186;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An interesting blog on <a title=\"Apespace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apesphere.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apesphere<\/a> caught my eye last month.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Has CSR become a code word for profit trumps CSR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apesphere.com\/blog\/29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cHas &#8220;CSR&#8221; become a code word for &#8220;profit trumps ethics&#8221;?\u201d<\/a> asked <a title=\"Andrew Newton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apesphere.com\/user\/apesphere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Newton<\/a>, before reaching this rather worrying conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"narrowblock\"><p>CSR has become shorthand way of saying a company\u2019s ethical behaviour is only useful if it preserves or enhances the company\u2019s bottom line (paraphrase)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"clearall\"><\/div>\n<p>Companies exist to make a profit, period.\u00a0 But should every business decision have to produce a maximised return on investment?<\/p>\n<p>If you scratch the surface of many companies&#8217; CSR policies, you soon discover that underneath it\u2019s little more than donating money to worthy causes.<\/p>\n<p>While this is admirable, it has nothing to do with changing corporate behaviour and the decision-making process.<\/p>\n<h3>Worse than greenwashing<\/h3>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just greenwashing.\u00a0 Greenwashing is a marketing ploy through which a company intentionally attempts to deceive customers by adopting the green trappings of an eco-friendly company.<\/p>\n<p>This is a real failure by the commercial world to understand that CSR means businesses decisions should be guided by wider considerations and not just profit alone.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not to say that companies should become charitable institutions; far from it.\u00a0 But if responsible behaviour requires a cut in profits, then a CSR business should take the cut in profits and understand there\u2019s more to life than money. NOTE: a profit is still made!<\/p>\n<p>Nor is this charitable giving, scheme membership or standard compliance. It requires every single business decision to be measured against a notion of responsibility alongside the financial return on investment.<\/p>\n<h3>But isn&#8217;t CSR Ethical Imperialism?<\/h3>\n<p>Injecting ethics into a business seems like the next, most logical thing to do.\u00a0 After all, ethics is all about morality, and without that how can you define responsibility?<\/p>\n<p>The big trouble is that ethics is also about culture.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the USA, UK, South Africa and Japan, or Venezuela, India and China.\u00a0 None of these share the same culture.\u00a0 All have a political system founded upon the specific ethical considerations of their population in general.<\/p>\n<p>Western proponents of ethical business need to be careful that they\u2019re not advocating a form of imperialism.\u00a0 Neither capitalism nor communism are perfect enough to fit every human society on Earth \u2013 nor are western business ethics.<\/p>\n<h3>Chiquita&#8217;s Ethical Dilemma<\/h3>\n<p>One example of how unsuited ethics is for the corporate world is the plight of international banana magnate, <a title=\"Chiquita\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chiquita.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chiquita<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 they were <a title=\"Times OnLine: US banana producer made payments to Colombian terrorists\" href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/markets\/united_states\/article1539749.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fined $25m for supporting an illegal terrorist organisation<\/a> in Columbia \u2013 <a title=\"AUC - United Self Defence Forces of Colombia - Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Self-Defense_Forces_of_Colombia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the AUC<\/a> and they now face protracted lawsuits from Colombians claiming damages.<\/p>\n<p>Chiquita first started paying \u201cdanger money\u201d to the AUC in 1997, as the Colombian civil war reached it&#8217;s most recent peak.\u00a0 In 2001 the AUC was officially recognised as a terrorist group in the USA, making such payments illegal.<\/p>\n<p>That still leaves 3 years before Chiquita stopped making the payments and informed authorities that they had been the victim of extortion in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Ethically, what else were Chiquita supposed to do?<\/p>\n<p>Refuse to pay danger money, leaving their employees open to attack and kidnapping?\u00a0 Withdraw completely, abandoning thousands of people and leaving a hugely profitable business in paramilitary hands?<\/p>\n<p>In 2001 they published their <a title=\"Chiquita 2001 Corporate Responsibility Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chiquita.com\/content\/chiquitacr01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first Corporate Responsibility report<\/a>, which embraced the <a title=\"SA8000 -- A Brief Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/social-accountability-international-sa8000-an-overview\/\">SA8000 standard<\/a>.\u00a0 Tellingly, this states that in 2000 one of their Colombian plantations couldn\u2019t be assessed &#8220;due to safety concerns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chiquita are judged (quite fairly) to have broken the law and are now faced (quite rightly) with a multitude of legal cases from Colombian families.\u00a0 However, trying to enforce embedded ethics onto business will only encourage multinationals to fight shy of being in a similar situation, not encourage them to remain engaged.<\/p>\n<h3>So Please, Less Ethics&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>This is why ethics should be left out of business.\u00a0 When faced with difficult decisions all ethics does is muddy the waters with compromises which make no-one happy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of trying to recreate the 19th century ethical business models to support industrial manufacturing, companies ought to be inventing 21st century business models needed to support an exploding global population.<\/p>\n<p>These sustainable business models must be based upon sustainability: the principle that you only take what you can replace or what will \u201cgrow back\u201d naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Which means founding all business decisions upon a sustainable \u201creturn on resources\u201d alongside the traditional return on investment.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8230; And More Sustainability<\/h3>\n<p>So, please, less of the ethics.\u00a0 Ethics are a personal belief, founded upon one\u2019s life experiences and culture.\u00a0 They are not a universal language.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, let\u2019s have more sustainability.\u00a0 Let\u2019s preserve the raw materials (mineral, animal or human) upon which all businesses are founded and ensure profits can be sustained for generation after generation.<\/p>\n<p>And, as Andrew implies, let\u2019s get away from our obsession that the bigger the profit, the better the business.\u00a0 As someone wiser than I recently said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are many things which money can buy, and a few things it cannot.<\/p>\n<p> But there&#8217;re many more things which money should <strong>never <\/strong>be allowed to buy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"tiny\">Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flasporty\/2562149283\/\">Thinking Ape<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/flasporty\/\">flasporty<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\">flickr<\/a> under <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en_GB\">Creative Commons Attribution License<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting blog on Apesphere caught my eye last month. \u201cHas &#8220;CSR&#8221; become a code word for &#8220;profit trumps ethics&#8221;?\u201d asked Andrew Newton, before reaching this rather worrying conclusion: CSR has become shorthand way of saying a company\u2019s ethical behaviour is only useful if it preserves or enhances the company\u2019s bottom line (paraphrase) Companies exist 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