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    1. • In your opinion‚ is “bribing” unethical & illegal or just a cost of doing business? Discuss this in light of Siemensbribery scandal. We believe that bribing is unethical because it takes away the fairness of a business transaction between bidders of a contract. Bribing also has a negative impact on competition because it allows for oligopolies and monopolies to emerge in an industry due to smaller competitors being unable to financially compete with the amount of the bribes. This in

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    Report for Case 1: The Bribery Scandal At Siemens AG Siemens‚ originated by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske in 1847‚ now is one of the top companies which major business area is electrical engineering‚ and has millions of employees and operations in around 190 countries in the whole world. However‚ in 2007‚ two former managers of Siemens AG were proved to be guilty by a German court. The court accused them for giving money from company to employees of Enel Spa and asking for contracts

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    Case One: The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG Organization and Industry Overview: The case‚ “The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG‚” underscores how employee involvement with unethical behavior can cause irrevocable damage to a company’s reputation and ultimately their profitability and success. Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske founded Siemens AG in 1847 in Munich‚ Germany as a manufacturer of telegraphic systems. Over the next 150+ years‚ the company grew rapidly expanding operations in

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    Md Haque BUS 685 Case 1 – The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG Analysis: On November 15‚ 2006‚ five Siemens employees were taken into custody in connection with suspected bribery‚ tax evasion and embezzlement of company funds related investigation. Police raided 30 offices and private homes in Germany. The authorities found €420M of questionable payments made over a seven year period from 1999 to 2006. Siemens documents reflected the questionable payments were made to external consultants. The

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    Case Study: Siemens Bribery Scandal 1. Corruption was deeply embedded in Siemen’s business culture. They rationalized this corruption by stating that it was not illegal to initiate bribes to government officials. This was true‚ however not anymore‚ the law changed in 1999 prohibiting such acts of corruption. 2. If a manager at Siemens would have stood up and took a stand against corruption‚ I think that he/she would have most likely been fired for being insubordinate. The higher executives that

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    The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG Analysis This case discusses the bribery scandals that were unearthed at Siemens AG in 2006 and 2007. There were a series of scandals that involved some of the company’s employees bribing foreign officials to gain contracts and creating slush funds for this purpose. Siemens agreed to pay €1 billion towards settlement of corruption charges $800 million of which was a fine imposed by U.S. in addition to the billions of euro paid in fines‚ back taxes and late interest

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    Case Analysis: The Bribery Scandal at Siemens AG The Siemens bribery scandal brought to light a strategic dilemma facing multi-national firms attempting to gain a competitive edge by operating abroad; specifically‚ how can they balance adherence to their own ethical and legal standards with the customs required to do business efficiently‚ or perhaps at all‚ in foreign markets?  Germany’s Co-Determination law has since drawn intense criticism as hampering competitiveness and creating untenable

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    Professor Portillo BSAD 113W 18 February 2013 Assignment #3: Siemens Bribery Scandal Before 1999 the use of bribery in Germany was not illegal and could be deducted as a business expense in a company’s taxes. This allowed companies like Siemens to gain the upper hand and have an unfair advantage over their competition in acquiring business deals around the world. Then when the law changed‚ Siemens still utilized bribery‚ and employed bribery tactics in other countries where it was also illegal. In this

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    Siemens Bribery Scandal By: Courtney Miano‚ Nancy Gonzalez‚ Mohamed Jawhar‚ Vernita Leslie‚ and Ferba Hines Siemen’s is classified as a large German electronics firm. In December of 2008‚ Siemens had to settle lawsuits and pay fines due to the fact that they were caught using bribes to win business all over the world. The fines totaled a net amount of 1.6 billion. Between 1999 and 2006 when the company was raided‚ Siemens reportedly paid around 1.4 billion dollars in

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    1) What explains the high level of corruption at Siemens was how it was legal at one point in time to offer bribes‚ but once the law changed‚ Siemens continued to do brides that was once legal but now illegal. Also‚ when the company continued briberySiemens transferred money into a hard-to-trace bank in Switzerland to protect their business and help them win contracts. Managers rationalized it as the bribes being useful money‚ but in a way they were still making profit‚ and bribes were used as

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