Why managers are corrupt? Is there corruption never pay? When friendship get in the bribery? As managers control and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other issues will be raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: Global engineering firm Siemens, the automaker VW, and chemical giant BASF. While German law not only permitted, but also overseas bribery even made it tax-free until 1999, he was not welcome in some countries where Siemens has made a business such as the U.S. or in Germany after 2000, but the old practice continued . Joint management-labor relations, is often seen as a key period after the Second World War the German industrial giant, soured in VW, as a senior manager secured key concessions, paying for union leaders' lavish foreign trips and visits to prostitutes. After vitamin prices sagged at the end of 1980, BASF and Swiss chemical company Hoffmann-La Roche to build a global cartel, which lasted ten years, and has raised the price of many vitamins are 50 percent or more. Eventually, even after recording criminal fines and imprisonment for some managers, some Observers have argued that this practice is likely to happen again. "Hide
by Ravi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella, Jonathan Schlefer Source: Harvard Business School 24 pages. Publication Date: July 30, 2008. Prod. #: 709006-PDF -ENG
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