The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common GoodBeard Books, 2004 - 272 sayfa Corporate responsibility can be judged by examining in detail how actual companies in pursuing the profit motive confer broad and measurable benefits to society. This is a reprint. |
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A Social Investment Balance Sheet | 16 |
Employment Layoffs and Social Responsibility | 35 |
Business and the Education Challenge | 57 |
Revitalizing Americas Cities | 78 |
Promoting Health and Wealth | 96 |
Selling Safety | 113 |
Nurturing Nature | 130 |
Business and Social Equality | 151 |
Family Values and the Workplace | 175 |
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The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good John McDonald Hood Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 1996 |
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Sayfa 5 - The difference between an incidental humanitarian expenditure of corporate funds for the benefit of the employees, like the building of a hospital for their use and the employment of agencies for the betterment of their condition, and a general purpose and plan to benefit mankind at the expense of others, is obvious.
Sayfa 5 - is to employ still more men, to spread the benefits of this industrial system to the greatest possible number, to help them build up their lives and their homes. To do this we are putting the greatest share of our profits back in the business.
Sayfa xix - By pursuing his own interest, he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Sayfa 5 - There should be no confusion (of which there is evidence) of the duties which Mr. Ford conceives that he and the stockholders owe to the general public, and the duties which in law he and his codirectors owe to protesting, minority stockholders. A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end.
Sayfa 1 - It joined long-established groups in the nation's capital such as the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the National Federation of Independent Business.
Sayfa 5 - A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits or to the nondistribution of profits among stockholders...
Sayfa 7 - Clearly then, the appellants, as individual stockholders whose private interests rest entirely upon the well-being of the plaintiff corporation, ought not be permitted to close their eyes to present-day realities and thwart the long-visioned corporate action in recognizing and voluntarily discharging its high obligations as a constituent of our modern social structure.
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