Corporate Culture: Finer Bags

There are many types of different corporate cultures. A corporate culture is the atmosphere, look, values, and overall impression that a corporation wishes to present to the world (Brusseau, 2012). Just like regular cultures, a corporate culture is something that is neither right nor wrong. How a company or corporation chooses to set up their culture depends on many aspects including, the business they wish to conduct, the customers they wish to attract, and the employees they want to hire. Let me give an example of two different corporate cultures. Many clothing stores require their employees to dress nice and would discourage or completely ban visible tattoos. This is not the case with the clothing store Zumiez. You would be hard pressed to walk into a Zumiez store and find an employee who does not have a visible tattoo (or many).

Finer Bags is a company that manufactures and sells knock off handbags. These handbags are made to look like high end brands that would normally retail for over a thousand dollars. Finer Bags makes fakes of these bags and then sells them for around the 200 dollar range (Using APA, 2011). Finer Bags is completely open about what they are doing. They do not claim to …show more content…
This means that the act can be applied in any similar situation and still be considered right. Using this theory we can make an argument for why Finer Bags should close up shop. The fact is that what Finer Bags is doing is illegal. The reason it is illegal is that they have stolen someone’s intellectual property and are selling it for a prophet without the permission of the owner. While in this case the sales of the real high-end bag makers may not be affected, this kind of intellectual theft could ruin other businesses. A company that is starting out could have their product stolen and made by a giant corporation, and destroy the new small