As we learned in Chapter 1, ethical relativism can be driven by local circumstances. Ethical business practices in North America may often be enforced by laws that do not apply to other countries. In such situations, domestic corporations are often required to follow the standard operating procedures (SOPs) of the client country even if, in areas of social and political chaos, those SOPs amount to nothing more than a bureaucratic nightmare. In that scenario, business ethics can often deteriorate into “whatever it takes” to get the deal done.