No business can be right in a war that's wrong
Western companies should end their business relations with Russia. It is their moral duty to contribute to peace-making by their actions, says a group of business ethicists in Switzerland and Austria.
April 13, 2022 - 09:00
Opinion by Thomas Beschorner
with Guido Palazzo, Markus Scholz and Peter Seele, Opinion by Thomas Beschorner
Some large corporations are currently breaking off economic relations with Russia, removing Russian products from their product ranges, and closing their production facilities or branches in the country. Among these are Ikea, Apple, all the major credit-card companies, and Coca-Cola.
Others, however, like Swiss food giant Nestlé or the largest foreign bank in Russia, Raiffeisen Bank International, are continuing to do business in and with Russia. These companies argue not in terms of their own obvious interests, but see themselves as having a social responsibility – to their own employees in Russia on the one hand, and to the Russian people on the other.
There is then a third group of companies, who have not had a word to say so far about their corporate responsibility.
Who is right? And what can we require of companies from an ethical point of view?
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/no-business-can-be-right-in-a-war-that-s-wrong/47512178
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