BP's Continuing Safety Problems: The Gulf of Mexico Crisis |
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Abstract:
The case highlights the ethical issues involved in the disaster and examines BP's response to it. Though the company accepted responsibility for the explosion and was making efforts to manage the oil spill, it remained largely unsuccessful in plugging the leak. As efforts to contain the spill continued, critics alleged that BP had put profits before safety and developed an "unhealthy corporate culture" where cost-cutting was given more priority than the safety of the workers. Issues:
» Study the factors that led to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Contents:
Keywords:Business ethics, Transnational aspect of the ethics debate, Multinationals in transnational accountability, Corporate social responsibility, Corporate accountability, Environmental disaster, Greenwashing, Environmental responsibility, US environmental and safety laws, process failure, cultural failure, management failure, Gulf of Mexico, BP Yet another Disaster at BP - Next Page>>
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