Business Horizons articles from July 1991

Business Horizons archives from July 1991

Are corporations inherently wicked? (editorial)
July 1, 1991... Evidence at his 1990 trial showed that John Borowski ordered his employees to dump toxic wastes down a sewer. A judge sentenced Borowski to two years in jail and fined him $400,000. The president of metal-finisher Borjohn Optical Technology...

Foundational considerations in the corporate social responsibility debate; (includes bibliography) (corporate social responsibility theories)
July 1, 1991... Over the last several years, the debate over the nature and extent of the social responsibilities of business has become heated and complex. A number of positions have been taken on the issue of "corporate social responsibility" (hereafter...

Corporate responsibility and the good society: from economics to ecology. (factors which influence corporate policy decisions; includes bibliography)
July 1, 1991... Those scholars who are not content to view the corporation as solely an economic institution having only economic responsibilities have sought to develop new theories and rationales for the notion that a corporation has responsibilities to...

Managing as if the earth mattered. (corporate environmental responsibilities; includes bibliography)
July 1, 1991... Alverino Gomez lives and works in Mexico City. He is the assistant plant manager for an American multinational corporation manufacturing industrial machines. The company's Mexico City facility is a major production center for its North American...

The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders. (balancing economic, legal, and social responsibilities)
July 1, 1991... For the better part of 30 years now, corporate executives have struggled with the issue of the firm's responsibility to its society. Early on it was argued by some that the corporation's sole responsibility was to provide a maximum financial...

Managerial responsibilities on the micro level. (activities managers should perform)
July 1, 1991... It is possible to think of the responsibilities of corporate managers on either the macro level - accountable to whom - or the micro level - accountable for what. Discussions of managerial responsibilities on the macro "to whom" level have been...

New directions in corporate social responsibility. (moral pluralism and reciprocity)
July 1, 1991... Among philosophers writing in business ethics, something of a consensus has emerged in the past ten years regarding the social responsibility of business. Although these philosophers were critical of the classical view of Milton Friedman (the...

Toward improving corporate social performance. (building "the good society")
July 1, 1991... Issues of corporate social responsibility have been debated in the U.S. for decades, but there is still no commonly accepted answer to the question, "To whom is the corporation responsible?" I submit that we haven't answered this question...

The constituents of corporate responsibility: separate, but not separable, interests? (shareholder and societal interests not mutually exclusive)
July 1, 1991... In his recent - and splendid - Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, Dennis Overbye observed that it is the "grinding of interests that leads to the sawdust of progress." Although he addressed this comment to the history of cosmological inquiry, we have...

Searching for the common good: a process-oriented approach. (evaluating corporate social responsibility; includes bibliography)
July 1, 1991... The issue of corporate social responsibility has been subjected to a great deal of analysis by both practitioners and academicians over a lengthy period of time. The degree of commitment to the debate, and the large number of authors that turn...

Business organizations and the sense of community. (community needed in American business)
July 1, 1991... There exists one primary means by which American business can both reestablish itself as the most dynamic and competitive in the international community and fulfill its social responsibility. American business will do so only if it creates a...

Corporate social responsibility: a critical approach. (corporate social responsibility no longer a useful concept)
July 1, 1991... The idea of corporate social responsibility has failed to help create the good society. Long seen by academics and managers alike as the missing link in capitalism, the concept of corporate social responsibility has not delivered on its...

Managing with integrity: social responsibilities of business as seen by America's CEOs.
July 1, 1991... Perhaps the most important feature of our world is that we live in it with others. This fact presents enormous difficulties for anyone struggling with the question of how to behave. In attempting to answer this perplexing concern, each...