Within the integrated social contracts approach, we find that a multinational company's code of conduct involves universal norms that must be enforced worldwide and also the inclusion of local moral standards $($traditions and cultures$)$ by the host country, thereby allowing for ethical diversity which entails:

Question $16$Select one:

a$.$

the self$-$righteous company trying to operate as a standard bearer of morality worldwide.

b$.$

the disturbing case where a multinational's ethical conduct is found to be no higher than those local ethical norms, where local ethical norms permit practices generally considered immoral.

c$.$

the necessity to activate compromises on what is ethically permissible and what is not.

d$.$

much internal conflict because "first$-$order" ethical norms always take precedence over local "second$-$order" norms.

e$.$

a $"$no compromise" position in instances involving universally applicable ethical norms on what is ethically permissible and what is not.