You have just been promoted to be the Chief Officer Corporate Responsibility and Ethics. Author and lay theologian C.S. Lewis submits that “integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching” https://www.goalcast.com/2018/03/26/15-c-s-lewis-quotes/c-s-lewis-quote1/ This axiom may ultimately be the real code of ethics standard that in the end when applied to globalization and public accountability will be appreciated as stronger than any law. Google is a US corporate based global company that since its founding in 1998 has managed to become the primary vehicle on how individuals across the world impart ideas, search issues, and explore thought https://www.google.org/. Recently, Google announced it is seriously exploring partnering with China to provide a search engine that blocks Chinese user queries for terms including freedom of speech, religion, and democracy. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-google-engineer-worked-china-search-engine-calls-wrong-192716078.html Some may argue that corporations with global strategies carry no moral obligation to countries in which they operate.

2.) In a minimum of 500 words please provide your view on whether a US based corporation with global strategies has a moral obligation to countries in which they operate regarding environmental devastation, worker exploitation, selfish use of available resources, and complicit corruption with governing jurisdictions. Please also include critical issues you see that need to be addressed as well as a basic code of ethics as part of your globalization strategy you would suggest.
Text used: Grant, R. M., & Jordan, J. (2015). Foundations of Strategy Second Edition. In R. M. Grant, & J.