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As a business student I recently attended a seminar by a guy who's in charge of ethics at one of Swedens larger investment firms. He had a few points about how corporate social responsibility was a big sales point when trying to sell shares in investment funds to the general public. These funds are called ethical funds in Sweden and they aren't supposed to invest in companies which are into weapons, alcohol, drugs, gambling etc but also that the companies had to pay minimum wages even if no such laws were in existance where they had their operations.
He made a point out of that these things where what the general Swedish public considered to be ethical actions and acceptable buisinesses but he also talked about how for example in southern europe (which is more catholic) the ethical funds weren't allowed to invest in contraception manufacturing companies because of different ethical standards.
Also he argued against that weapons were nececarily unethical since they are necesary to keep people and nations safe and that the minimum wages could keep companies out of really poor countries and in that way limiting their populations work choices to even worse paying jobs and prostitution etc.
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