Drawing the Ethical Line

• 作者: ADAMMINTER
• 来源期刊: 中国外经贸：英文版
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: 商业交往 礼物 文化差异 西方文化 中国
• 年，卷（期）: 2004,（3）
• 页码范围: 44-45
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: F715

摘要

An American businessman with over ten years experience in China opens his wallet in the back of a Shanghai taxi. Inside are several blue and green Shanghai Public Transportation Cards stacked like credit cards. “At my wife's office, the vendors show up and hand these out as gifts,”he says as he hands one to the driver. “She can accept them because [the company's] gift policy limits gifts to two-hundred yuan, and the vendor only puts two-hundred yuan on the card.” He opens the door and steps onto a busy street frequented by Shanghai's foreign business community. “Now you tell me: is that bribe? For two hundred yuan? I don't think so. It's a gift between business partners. It's China,you know?”