Case

Walmart, FCPA investigations

Walmart announced on 20 June 2019 that it had reached agreements with the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission to resolve their Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations.

Industry
Retail
Frameworks applied
Carroll's CSR pyramidUN Global Compact ten principlesConditional SDG alignment
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Frameworks applied

This case is read through the frameworks below.

  • Carroll's CSR pyramidWhen a business owner draws up a CSR programme, which duties come first: economic, legal, ethical or philanthropic?
  • UN Global Compact ten principlesWhen a company's leadership commits to sustainability or courts international partners, what minimum standards on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption must it uphold?
  • Conditional SDG alignmentWhen a leadership team weighs committing to the SDGs, how can it tell whether the commitment truly strengthens strategy or is just a label or a budget line?

Sources

References

Listed A–Z by author surname, Harvard style. A source with a DOI links to https://doi.org/…; one without links to its page or says plainly that it has no DOI.

  1. Securities and Exchange Commission (2019) Press release 2019-102 on the Walmart FCPA resolution (20 June 2019).No DOIsec.govSource page
  2. Walmart Inc. (2019) Walmart reaches agreements with the DOJ and the SEC to resolve their FCPA investigations (20 June 2019).No DOIcorporate.walmart.comSource page