Global Players - their abuse of power

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 1,2 (A), BVL Campus gGmbH (Private Technical School for Economics), language: English, abstract: Globalisation is expanding - with all the advantages and disadvantages coming alongwith it. There are winners as well as losers and the GAP between these two partiesis getting bigger and bigger. The global players in this world are the ones that takemost advantage of this development by exploiting both nature as well asindividuals. In order to get bigger and increase profits, companies make use of all possiblemeans and it seems that ethical standards have not been existing for years. Fromchild labour or illegal medical tests to financing wars in developing countries, thuscausing the deaths of numerous people the range of opportunities to reach theobjective is quite large. This dissertation will show the real face of several well-known companies that aregenerally well-reputed, although this is definitively not justified in view of theirbackground activities.