Milton Friedman suggests that businesses should only be responsible for making profits. If a business stays within the law‚ it is encouraged to do anything and go to any means necessary to maximize the bottom line. Other aspects such as customer happiness‚ impacts on society should not be its main concern. Porter and Kramer on the other hand suggest that we can create shared values in other words we can create economic value simultaneously by creating societal benefit and vice versa. Theoretically
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Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business By Thomas Malthus (See note at the bottom of the page) Thirty-five years ago‚ Milton Friedman wrote a famous article for The New York Times Magazine whose title aptly summed up its main point: "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits." Friedman had no patience for capitalists who claimed that "business is not concerned ’merely’ with profit but also with promoting desirable ’social’ ends; that business has a ’social conscience’
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The article by Milton Friedman titled the social responsibility of business is to increase profits and the speech given by bill gates at the world economic forum 2008 both address the nagging topic of social responsibility of corporations. Both articles offer tremendous insight on this issue. Friedman points out the contradiction of the notion of social responsibility and the aim of making profit while gates introduces Recognition as a new variable in this equation. The purpose of this essay is
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maximize their profit. Companies may take different approaches to maximize profit or minimize loss based on their own organizational strengths in order to achieve their goal. Indeed‚ everyone can understand how important does making profits meant to a company. Making profits not only benefit the business owners and also indicate to shareholders how well performed the company is. According to Lord Holme and Richard Watts‚ corporate social responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave
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much criticism from classical economists‚ especially in the latter half of the 1900’s. Milton Friedman was a leading economist at the forefront of this counter revolution‚ and he became a very influential advocate for free markets around the world. Many of his ideas for market policy‚ however‚ are criticized for being too misleading or overzealous. A lot of economic thinking developed in the 1800’s and 1900’s has been based on the ideas of Homo economicus or the Economic Man‚ whose economic preferences
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Read the Debate on pp. 194-99 ("Putting Customers Ahead of Investors" by Jack Mackay‚ and "Put Profits First" by T.J. Rodgers). Write a 4-5 page argumentative essay arguing for or against this issue: What is the Social Responsibility of Business? Back up your argument with information from these 2 articles as well as using information from at least 2 other websites you have located. The support in your paper must be documented using in-text citations and a Works Cited page (MLA format). For
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Reflective Essay Five: Are Profits the Only Business of Business? The business world is evolving at a fast pace‚ but so are the world’s social problems. Many places around the world still have poor nutrition‚ no access to water‚ or lack food or skills. Climate change‚ deforestation‚ and pollution are major issues that still need solutions. Healthcare is another important area that needs to be developed and that requires more efficiency. The world definitely has problems that need to be solved
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Lesson 4 Social Responsibilities of Business You know that business is an economic activity‚ which is carried out on a regular basis to earn profit. However‚ you must have seen businessmen spending money on different aspects‚ which is not going to give them any profit straightway. For example‚ you must have seen businessmen maintaining and developing gardens and parks on streets and squares in cities. Some businessmen engage themselves in research for improving the quality of products; some
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Businesses have many responsibilities‚ the primary role being‚ to make profit and then in turn grow and expand as a business in the hope that they increase profits. After all‚ not many people want to be in the business of losing money‚ it is simply the function of a business ... to make money. However‚ in saying that‚ I would disagree in saying that this is entirely a “social” responsibility. Businesses have a responsibility to their stakeholders and/or their shareholders to increase profits‚ but socially
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Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Introduction | Ethics | Code of Ethics | Social Responsibility | Social Audit | | Introduction | | The world of business is a melting pot of diverse cultures. With the present technology‚ the distance between business locations has become virtually borderless. Different backgrounds produce different understandings of very basic concepts‚ like what is right and what is wrong. Simply stated‚ right versus wrong is the definition of ethics. The challenge
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