Global Players - their abuse of power

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Didactics - 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 along with it. There are winners as well as losers and the GAP? between these two parties is getting bigger and bigger. The global players in this world are the ones that take most advantage of this development by exploiting both - nature as well as individuals. In order to get bigger and increase profits, companies make use of all possible means and it seems that ethical standards have not been existing for years. From child labour or illegal medical tests to financing wars in developing countries, thus causing the deaths of numerous people - the range of opportunities to reach the objective is quite large. This dissertation will show the real face of several well-known companies that are generally well-reputed, although this is definitively not justified in view of their background activities.