The Multinational Monitor
 
JUNE 1984 - VOLUME 5 - NUMBER 6
 
Matters of Corporate Conscience 


C O N T E N T S

Features

The Executive Mindset
- by Mortin Mintz
"Today the villian most in need of curbing is the respectable, exemplary, trusted personage who, strategically placed at the focus of a spider-web of fiduciary relations, is able from his office chair to pick a thousand pockets, poison a thousand sick, pollute a thousand minds, or imperil a thousand lives.

The Cost of Whistleblowing
- by Ole Baekgaard
An executive at the Swiss-based drug company Hoffmann LaRoche blew the whistle on its illegal business practices. Two years later, Stanley Adams was arrested and charged with espionage and treason.

General Motors' Sideshow
A firsthand report on the auto company's 76th annual shareholders meeting, where questions on social issues fell on deaf ears.

The Multinationals' Squeeze on Ireland
- by Sheila Harty
Multinationals were lured to Ireland to create jobs and spur economic growth. Instead, they've created environmental and public health problems.

News Monitor

Offsets: Under Fire Down Under
- by Louis Nemeth

Saving Jobs: A New Use for Eminent Domain
- by Show Mao Chen

Update on Silicon Valley: Health Threats
- by Ralph Nader Corporatists v. Conservatives: The U.S. - U.S.S.R. Trade Battle

Bolivia's Economic Horror Story

Anti-Apartheid Movement: Growing Pressure on Pretoria

Book Reviews

Pills That Don't Work
- reivew by Steven Dear

Addressing the Imbalance of Control
- review by Louis Nemeth