Wal-Mart is known for offering good prices on a wide variety of products and many people shop at Wal-Mart because the prices allow them to live better lives. At the same time, Wal-Mart has been criticized for several of its business practices. One of the business practices that Wal-Mart has been criticized for is that often, when Wal-Mart comes into a community, it drives small, local businesses out of business because they can’t compete with Wal-Mart on price and variety.
Are Wal-Mart and the local merchants in the communities that Wal-Mart enters natural competitors? Are they enemies? Does Wal-Mart have an ethical responsibility to the small, local businesses in the communities where it locates its stores? What is the basis of that ethical responsibility? 200 word
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Case Analysis
The Ford Pinto case is a well
-known case that is often discussed in the context of business ethics. To summarize, Ford's design of the Pinto's fuel tank was defective, causing fires if the Pinto was involved in even minor rear
-end collisions. Ford came to learn of the defect, but the company failed to correct it; Ford then predicted, based on a cost-benefit analysis, that it would cost more to repair the defect ($11 per vehicle, or $137 million total) than it would to pay for damages resulting from burn deaths, burn injuries, and burned vehicles ($47.5 million). Consider the Ford Pinto case in light of the who -how (WH) framework for business ethics.
Would Ford's decision to forego repairing the defective design comply with these ethical guidelines? If so, why? If not,
then what actions should Ford have taken to satisfy them? Explain your reasoning.
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