Abstract
The paper "Issues of corporate hospitality and corruption" deals with the question of whether there is a fair form and degree of rationalized corporate hospitality compatible with the starting points of general and Christian ethics. The paper presents a comprehensive view of a wide range of approaches to corporate hospitality from selfless, through rationalized, to binding, manipulative and corrupt.
Corporate hospitality is a very current, widely used management tool. It can mean thanking for the cooperation, expressing respect and esteem to the business partner or showing openness to future cooperation.
However, corporate hospitality does not always have to be a step towards the other into an unsecured space, but on the contrary an effort to pre-secure that space and gain an advantage. Such hospitality may bind or even manipulate the business partner, with the aim of winning a contract, securing cooperation or facilitating a path to profit.
Such hospitality is already strikingly close to corruption. An important part of the paper is therefore the definition of corporate hospitality against corruption and a deeper assessment of individual approaches to corporate hospitality.
The paper presents the criteria of morally justifiable corporate hospitality and its limits.