The proper role for business to play in a capitalist society? In the analysis of the answers to this question, in this note a distinction between two separate measurements. The first includes the distinctive business goals as a social institution, believes that the pros and cons of profit maximization, and as an alternative to profit maximization such as the introduction of a client or an employee in the first place, stakeholder theory, and the corporation as a public service organization. He then examines the second dimension, corresponding to the persecution of moral constraints of their business goals. On this dimension, the note is considered minimal strategic fit, libertarian structure of force or fraud, the law, social norms, and independent standards of moral conduct. "Hide
by J. Gregory Dees, Jaan Elias 19 pages. Publication Date: June 10, 1997. Prod. #: 897012-PDF-ENG
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