ABSTRACT
The critical difference is that multinational firms are trading with nations that are in different stages of economic development and stakeholders are objecting to certain business practices. The stakeholder-frame model was then used to name/identify the messages being expressed and the stakeholder-objective model was used to classify the stakeholder groups based on their operating objective for the purpose of analysis. The frames were organised for the purpose of analysis using the ethical model for decision-making and the stakeholder-objective model. Bangladeshi factory owners/managers are targeted by their stakeholders for hiring children, and US importers are targeted by their stakeholders for buying clothing that children participated in making. The United States importer and Bangladeshi factory owner/manager each represents the 'firm' in their own stakeholder environment. In Bangladesh, nonprofit labour stakeholders understand that, given the alternatives available to poor children, they often must work and garment work is a better choice.
