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Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
-Henry Mintzberg
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Corporations Are Economic Entities, To Be Sure,

Henry Mintzberg
Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.
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Nations are political and military entities, and so are blocs of nations. but it doesn't necessarily follow from this that they are also the basic, salient entities of economic life or that they are particularly useful for probing the mysteries of economic structure, the reasons for rise and decline of wealth. indeed, the failure of national governments and blocs of nations to force economic life to do their bidding suggests some sort of essential irrelevance.
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If you start with the presumptions that liberals do, that corporations are evil and it all descends from that and that government is great and that government's there to make sure corporations play fair and are not mean and do not rip people off, there's a little bit of truth in everything. some corporations are bad, some corporations have done bad things, but as a general rule, it's dangerous to subscribe to things like that.
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You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. just put them there and say sir, or madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? if you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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Leadership has to be focused on some very radical ideas that only we as 21st century people can talk about: making sure people have a livelihood, making sure people receive a living wage, making sure the environment, the mother earth, is embraced and cherished and not destroyed. making sure people are healthy in what they eat, making sure we hold people and corporations accountable for the damage they do not only to our environment but to our institutions.
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In the early 1970s, milton friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. but in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. that's because competition has become so much more intense.
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The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. hundreds of laws of congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. these need to be exposed and repealed. all laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. this is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. it is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.
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