All Posts Tagged With: "social responsibility"
The Theory of the Corporation
Ever a topic of dispute for observers of capitalism, the corporation has been undergoing increased scrutiny in the light of current business scandals. While other forms of capitalist enterprise, such as partnerships and single proprietorships, have avoided some of the wrath of socialist agitators, the limited-liability corporation, public or private, has had to endure the [...]
1Mar2003 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Stakeholder Fallacy
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). As the saying goes: “There is more than one way to skin a cat.” And former collectivists, embarrassed by the dismal failure of economic planning to provide any kind [...]
1Mar2000 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedDo Corporations Have Social Responsibilities?
John Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation, a public-policy think tank in North Carolina, and the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press, 1996). Businesses are accustomed to being criticized for neglecting their responsibilities to society. Complaints that private enterprise puts profit before people have long provided reliable [...]
1Nov1998 | John Hood | 26 comments | ContinuedOn Giving Back
To celebrate the centennial of its founding, the big accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick made September 22, 1997, “KPMG World of Spirit Day.” The firm’s 130 offices were closed that day so that, as the letter announcing this event stated, “over 20,000 KPMG partners and employees will spend the day serving our local communities.” The [...]
1Mar1998 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedIs Voluntarism Enough?
Mr. Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. As the Age of Politics (historian Paul Johnson’s label for the twentieth century) winds down, even liberals are championing civil society. Herds [...]
1Aug1997 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Review: The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good by John M. Hood
Free Press • 1996 • 266 pages • $25.00 Dr. Peterson is an adjunct scholar at the Heritage Foundation and distinguished Lundy professor emeritus of business philosophy at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina. In his introduction John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina, and a former Bradley fellow at [...]
1Feb1997 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | Continued-
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