BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY IN TAIWAN - MORAL, LEGAL OR NEGOTIATED

This study explores both the negotiating styles and moral reasoning pr ocesses of business people and governmental officials in Taiwan, so as to provide a footing for ''outsiders'' when negotiating with Taiwanes e over environmental concerns. Findings imply that Taiwanese business people and governmental officials can and will reason both at the conv entional level and at the postconventional level of moral judgment. Bu t, results of this study also indicate that Taiwanese negotiating styl es do not necessarily match their levels of moral reasoning. With resp ect to pollution concerns. Taiwanese seem unwillingly to accept respon sibility as autonomous individuals. Instead, responsibility is accepte d when mandated by the law.