Unit III Assignment Friedman Vs. Carroll Responsibilities of Business Firms to Society MBA 5101 - Strategic Management and Business Policy February 1st‚ 2015 Friedman’s View of Business Responsibility Milton Friedman’s theory on business responsibility is grounded on his belief that the only social responsibility of a business is to use their resources and engage in activities that legally generate profit for shareholders. Friedman believes that: • Businesses should engage in “traditional” functions
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“Stakeholder” theory of management‚ two different views about the purpose and aims of a business. Milton Friedman’s shareholder theory of management says that the purpose of a business is to make money for the owner or the stockholders of the business. Friedman says that there is only one social responsibility for the business: to use its resources in order to increase its profits as long as the business stats within the rules that are assigned‚ as for example to compete in free competition and without
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into grave detail the social responsibilities of an individual vs. the social responsibilities of a business. He also explained the duties of the businessman: legislator‚ executive‚ and the jurist. He couldn’t understand how some businessman could be so “clear headed” regarding matters internal to their business but so “muddle headed” in matters outside their business in matters critical to their business’s survival. According to Friedman‚ there is one social responsibility for a business “engage
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Freeman and Friedman offering opposing views to answer the question “What is business’s responsibility?” Freeman puts forth what he calls the “stakeholder theory” while Friedman advocates for the “stockholder theory.” Freeman’s stakeholder theory identifies different “stakes” that influence an organization. Each of these parts is integral to the well-functioning of the organization. Included in these categorizations are employees‚ shareholders‚ communities‚ and customers. Freeman advises organizations
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Friedman vs. Head on the Effectiveness of Online Writing *** ----- ----- The Effectiveness of Online Writing Courses (MOOCs) Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are one of the revolutionary trends in education across the world. Many controversies surround it with some education stakeholders viewing it as very costly but of little value. In addition‚ other critics consider it a cheaper model of teaching especially in higher education (Vimeo‚ 2014). Cheaper in the sense many students
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good‚ in the article wrote by Thomas L. Friedman “Stuff Happens to the Environment‚ like Climate Change” (The New York Times) where it is explained how climate change is taken differently by all the large industrial economies‚ including United states. Friedman’s claim is that some candidates running for presidents do not pay attention to the severity of these problems and why voters should not vote for them‚ which is a good start to address climate problems. Friedman uses valid points to persuade
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questions by Peter Drucker’s Management Challenges of the 21st Century‚ one of the most insightful and thought-provoking books I’ve ever read‚ and one I return to regularly‚ nearly a decade after its publication. The first chapter in this pithy volume‚ "Management’s New Paradigms‚" explodes six deeply flawed assumptions that Drucker saw underlying the discipline and practice of contemporary management. Assumption #3 is "There is‚ or there must be‚ one right way to manage people‚" and Drucker uses this
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Friedman: The purpose of a business is to maximize profits while adhering to law and ethics. Primarily‚ this argumentation is based on the notion that corporations‚ as legal persons‚ cannot have responsibilities like natural persons. Secondary‚ Friedman’s argumentation is based on the principle of ownership and employment. By not complying with the duty of serving the owners’ interest (maximum profit)‚ a manager would allocate resources artificially and arbitrarily. This spending would be unjust
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Kwame Anthony Appiah‚ Marshall Poe‚ and Thomas L. Friedman further elaborate on a few important aspects of globalization. Technology‚ a major part of globalization‚ has allowed humans to create the Internet‚ bringing along many benefits and drawbacks to our society on a social and global level. Humans have always interacted with each other for thousands of years. An example of such interaction is
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Answer 1: Thomas Friedman‚ New York Times columnist and author‚ claims in his book titled‚ ‘The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ’(2005)‚ that globalization and technology has flattened the world to a ‘level playing field’. He analyses the ten ‘flatteners’ or events that happened over a period of around ten years to make the world go flat. The first flattener‚ that Friedman writes about‚ was the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and end of the Cold War‚ that brought forward
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