"Ethical" Political Risk: Impacts and Strategies

In spite of recent efforts aimed at providing more conceptual clarity, political risk analysis as a field of inquiry is still theoretically underdeveloped. Starting with the analysis of a number of case studies, this chapter disentangles the relationship between the transgression of various types of ethical norms and political risk by multinational enterprises (MNEs), making a case for the importance of identifying, assessing and managing ethical political risk in closer connection with MNE’s tools and mechanisms to manage corporate social responsibility.