Lapindo and BP, Study Comparison, Paper Result
I want to post some of my article..
I just started to write some investigation for Ethics and Culture Paper.. Here it is the introduction,

Lapindo
The world is flat (Friedman, 2005). Business world nowadays run in the global village. There is no boundary among the countries. The development of information technology makes much business information can be delivered in a second from all around the world. For Instance, the information about British Petroleum (BP) Oil Spill, the oil spill which burdened many people in gulf Mexico has triggered the reaction from people and green peace organization in all around the world. Just two days after this oil spill, the price of shares had decreased $2 dollar per share. According with that, it means that the reputation of the company in run an ethical business has been monitored by many parties from all around the world. Warren Buffet, the famous business player in stock market said ‘It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently’.
The reputation of the company running the business has become one of the important factors in getting success. Based on this statement, many companies attempt to run their operation with ethical guides and not ruined the existence of the environment. But, somehow there are laws, regulations, and the inadequate institutions have facilitated the unethical things which jeopardize the corporate governance reputation. Based on this statement, this paper will try to differentiate also the Mezzo Institution which support and not support ethical behavior.
Why these phenomenon become really interesting subject to discuss? First we know that BP is one of the biggest oil company in the world, which employ thousands people in all around the world. With a big scale of operation, for sure BP will try to keep their business sustain in the anyhow situation. BP will try to avoid any risk that can make them loose their profit and credibility in front of their stakeholder which is represented by his Code of Conduct Guidance. Tumbull (2009) said that some time Mining Industry still have to deal with situation that force them to be unethical. And the company behavior will be determined by the institution in the operating countries.
Second, this paper will be quite interesting because we find the almost same phenomenon which was occurred in Indonesia. The analyses of this paper will show us about the differences between US government and Indonesian Government in handling the disaster as the effect of mining industry. Why it is predicted to be different because there are some differences aspect at Mezzo Institution level between Indonesia and United States. This phenomenon also will show us the evidence of deprivation in human right, the broken of market efficiency, and the inadequate institution in handling this problem.
New York Times, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/oil_spills/gulf_of_mexico_2010/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=bp%20oil%20spill&st=cse
Turnbull, Shann, Why ‘Best’ Corporate Governance Practices are Unethical and Less Competitive (November 2, 2009). BUSINESS ETHICS: DECISION-MAKING FOR PERSONAL INTEGRITY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, 2E, L. Hartman, J. DesJardins, eds., Burr Ridge, IL: McGraw-Hill, 2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1260047
