scholarly journals The Social Purpose of the Modern Business Corporation

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-89
Author(s):  
Peter J. Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Business Corporation ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Business

scholarly journals Corporate Ethical Training: An Answer to White-Collar Crimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Pitre ◽  
Claudius Claiborne
Keyword(s):  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Corporate America ◽  
Significant Component ◽  
Business Corporation ◽  
Ethical Training ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
American Society

The modern business corporation is a culturally significant component of American Society. It is facing a cultural invasion of the highest order. The categorical imperative, an unconditional principle that rational individuals must follow despite natural desires or inclinations to do otherwise, is today being called into question. This is most likely the result of grounding moral values upon information that is transient and unstable rather than upon established data. The social contract, which governs the formation and maintenance of individual morals, is a requirement in organizations that demands collective agency – employees acting together to set forth moral rules of behavior and eschew pernicious leanings and tendencies. From that perspective, ethical training becomes a key leveraging point in the disconnect between cultural expectations and individual behaviors in corporate America.

Realism 2.0

2019 ◽  
pp. 663-679
Author(s):  
Augusta Rohrbach
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Data Modeling ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social

This chapter looks to the future of teaching realism with Web 2.0 technologies. After discussing the ways in which technologies of data modeling can reveal patterns for interpretation, the chapter examines how these technologies can update the social-reform agenda of realism as exemplified by William Dean Howells’s attempted intervention into the Haymarket Riot in 1886. The advent of Web 2.0 techologies offers students a way to harness the genre’s sense of social purpose to knowledge-sharing mechanisms to create a vehicle for political consciousness-raising in real time. The result is “Realism 2.0,” a realism that enables readers to engage in their world, which is less text-centric than it was for previous writers.

scholarly journals Hobbes Meets the Modern Business Corporation

Polity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.J.G. Claassen
Keyword(s):  
Business Corporation ◽  
Modern Business

The ‘Social Purpose’ of SSC

Physics Today ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Bruce R. Baller ◽  
Rustum Roy
Keyword(s):  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals The Social Purpose of Corporations

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (s1) ◽  
pp. 49-73
Author(s):  
Nien-Hê Hsieh ◽  
Marco Meyer ◽  
David Rodin ◽  
Jens Van 'T Klooster
Keyword(s):  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social

FROM ELIZABETH GASKELL’S MARY BARTON TO HER NORTH AND SOUTH:PROGRESS OR DECLINE FOR WOMEN?

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pearl L. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mature Work ◽  
North And South

ASSESSMENTS OF ELIZABETH GASKELL’S two novels of social purpose typically conclude that North and South, published in 1855, is a more mature work stylistically and ideologically than Mary Barton, published in 1848. North and South is said to integrate the narrative modes of romance and realism more effectively than Mary Barton (Felber 63, Horsman 284), and to provide a more complicated narrative structure (Schor, Scheherezade 122–23), a more complex depiction of social conflicts (Easson 59 and 93) and a more satisfactory resolution of them (Duthie 84, Kestner 170). North and South is also said to deal with “more complex intellectual issues” (Craik 31). And the novel’s heroine, Margaret Hale, has been seen as Gaskell’s most mature creation — a woman who grows in self-awareness as she adapts to an alien environment (Kestner 164–166) and, unlike Mary Barton, becomes an active mediator of class conflicts (Stoneman 120), the central consciousness that brings together “the lessons of social change and romance” (Schor, Scheherezade 127).1 The reconciliation of these conflicts she inspires through her influence over both mill owner and worker has been praised as a more effective and credible narrative resolution to the social problems depicted in the novel than the reconciliation between mill owner and worker in Mary Barton (David 36).

Incomplete Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-232
Author(s):  
Henry Hansmann ◽  
Reinier Kraakman ◽  
Richard Squire
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Commercial Law ◽  
Legal Entity ◽  
Business Corporation ◽  
Modern Business ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Insolvency Proceedings ◽  
Personal Assets ◽  
Asset Partitioning

This chapter analyzes ancient Rome’s law of business entities from the perspective of asset partitioning, the delimiting of creditor collection rights based on the distinction between business assets and personal assets. Asset partitioning, which is an essential legal attribute of modern business forms such as the partnership and the business corporation, reduces borrowing costs by simplifying credit-risk assessment and expediting insolvency proceedings. The chapter finds that ancient Roman business arrangements, such as the societas and the slave-run business endowed by the slaveowner with a peculium, did not give business creditors the first claim to business assets, making these forms of organization non-entities according to the criterion of asset partitioning. It appears that the only true legal entity used to form profit-seeking firms was the societas publicanorum, which roughly resembled the modern limited partnership. But use of that form was generally confined to firms that provided public services under contract with the state. Moreover, the societas publicanorum was essentially a creature of the Republic, and was largely abandoned during the Empire. Although Rome had a complex economy and sophisticated commercial law, and was familiar with most of the types of asset partitioning seen in modern legal systems, it ultimately failed to develop legal entities for general use in commerce. Apparent reasons include the Roman aristocracy’s disparagement of commerce, the emperors’ wariness of strong organizations outside the state, and the society’s continuing reliance on the family—a durable and complex legal entity in its own right—to handle many commercial needs.

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