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Rock and a Hard Place (A & B), A


Bruce Fournier, Brian Moorby

published: 2006 | Case Study | International Business

Subject Area:        Organizational Behaviour; International Business; Business Policy/Strategic Management; Communications

Key Issues:        Ethics - Micro/Macro; Absentee Boss(es); Communications

Case Description:    Part I:  A young engineer working for a Canadian subsidiary of a well-established German firm finds himself in possession of data which implicates his former boss in wrong-doing.  Should he report it to the German parent? Part II:  A new boss discovers the problem (which had not been acted on) and dealing with the ethics problem escalates to the boss level.

# Case Pages:    15

Case Number:    030053-G

Teaching Note: 
   Yes

revised May 23/06

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