Business Ethics: Wall-Mart Brazil Thinks Green
Sustainability and humanitarianism have been the two most crucial aspects many businesses decided to focus on for the last past decades. In fact,m they are becoming more and more popular nowadays, and lots of companies are trying to focus on them. One company that became the spotlight in the media is Wall-Mart in Brazil. It is even quoted as “the event that had great potential for changing business” on the web, here is a link to it. http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jul2009/ca20090714_100756.htm
Raising those two factors in a business is a really good step for Wall-Mart. It assures all the stakeholders that the business itself is ethically good. Whoever wants to be involve in Wall-Mart will, at the very least, feels the chances of them being harmed is minimized.
The bottom line is, doing so will bring benefits to many sectors as it brings out a positive image of the company and also help to sell the company’s brand name even more. Wall-Mart even emphasizes on the slavery employment, no soybeans from deforested area and beef from Amazonian land will be sold in Wall-Mart.