Transcript Business Ethics and Doing Business internationally

Business Ethics and
Doing Business
internationally
Miss Uthaiwan Mingsupakul
ESL 154 Development of Oral Communication
Instructor: Professor Lyra Riabov
Content
1. The type and the name of business
2. The country to do business with
3. The number of employees and where they
are from
4. The differences in business ethics between
Thailand and USA.
The type of
business
 Full service Thai
restaurant
The name of
Business
 “Thai big elephant”
Location
The United States of America
Country Doing
Business With
The United States of America
The number of employees
 3 cooks
 4 wait staff
 Thailand
Differences in business ethics
Thailand
USA

 Wait staff
Self-service
 Street vendors
 Less competition
 Low hygiene
 Hygiene is required
 Low prices, low income
 High prices, high income
Conclusion
 Business ethics in our own culture changes
when doing business internationally.
 To have a successful business internationally,
these differences need to be thought about
and put into the business plan.
References
 “May Thai Restaurant" Retrieved from Yahoo Images on Sept 18,
2007 from
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkaboutwolf/102025967/>
 “Baby bowing elephant" Retrieved from Yahoo Images on Sept 18,
2007 from
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/linzexploringtheworld/20071910/>
 Blass, Laurie. Quest 2: Listening and Speaking. 2nd Edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill, 2007.