Case Description: A Disputed Contract – IHC Caland in Burma

Frank G.A. de Bakker; Frank den Hond

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9334-9_13

Case Description: A Disputed Contract – IHC Caland in Burma

Frank G.A. de Bakker^*
, Frank den Hond

^*Corresponding author for this work

Management and Organisation, Helsinki

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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IHC Caland designed, built and operated material, ships and complete systems for offshore oil and gas, dredging and shipping industries. The relatively strong economic growth in Southeast Asia offered opportunities for IHC Caland and other specialised suppliers. In the summer of 1998, an IHC Caland subsidiary contracted for an offshore project in Burma’s territorial waters. The order was for several hundreds of millions euros, hence of considerable interest to the company. The contract led to public stir because it involved work in a country controversial for its human rights situation. Many human rights, environmental and union organisations expressed their outrage and tried to move IHC Caland to cancel the contract. A controversy was born. It took IHC Caland long resisted the claims made by the NGOs. It maintained that the morality of commercial agents is limited to abiding with all legal laws and regulations. It therefore argued that it had not committed any moral wrong and was allowed to do business with the Burma government.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	European Business Ethics Cases in Context : The Morality of Corporate Decision Making
Editors	Wim Dubbink, Luc van Liedekerke, Henk van Luijk
Number of pages	19
Place of Publication	Dordrecht
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Publication date	2011
Pages	121-139
ISBN (Print)	978-94-007-3516-3, 978-90-481-9333-2
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-481-9334-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9334-9_13
Publication status	Published - 2011
MoE publication type	A3 Book chapter

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Name	Issues in Business Ethics
Volume	28
ISSN (Print)	0925-6733
ISSN (Electronic)	2215-1680

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SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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Corporate Social Responsibility
Dutch Government
OECD Guideline
Pension Fund
Trade Union
512 Business and Management

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de Bakker, F. G. A., & den Hond, F. (2011). Case Description: A Disputed Contract – IHC Caland in Burma. In W. Dubbink, L. V. Liedekerke, & H. V. Luijk (Eds.), European Business Ethics Cases in Context: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making (pp. 121-139). (Issues in Business Ethics; Vol. 28). Springer Science+Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9334-9_13

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European Business Ethics Cases in Context: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making. ed. / Wim Dubbink; Luc van Liedekerke; Henk van Luijk. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, 2011. p. 121-139 (Issues in Business Ethics; Vol. 28).

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