Based on the complaints of the SOLE, Phil Abruzzi, the director of procurement and logistics services at the university asked the board to investigate the Coca-Cola companies for a number of ethical issues. These included the use of groundwater in India, …show more content…
In an era in which human rights and environmentalism are held in high regard, the Coca-Cola Company cannot afford to conduct their business in this manner. The Coca-Cola Company, stressed the fact that the company neither owned nor managed most of the bottling companies that it works with. Because of this, they argued that they had no legal right to control the environmental practices or to require them to report the practices. This is a situation in which Coca-Cola is cooperating with the law, but not operating ethically. They are operating under a system in which they allow their partners to act any way that they want, because Coca-Cola themselves will not be held accountable for