Corporate Strategy and the Search for Ethics

R. Edward Freeman; Daniel R. Gilbert

Abstract

Managers and theorists are focusing on values in today's business world. The point of view advanced in this book is simple yet groundbreaking: the search for excellence and the search for ethics amount to the same thing, and both have to be integrated into corporate strategy.

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ExcellenceBusiness ethicsPoint (geometry)ManagementEngineering ethicsManagement sciencePolitical scienceBusinessSociologyPublic relationsEngineeringEconomicsMathematicsLaw

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Year: 1988
Type: book
Citations: 365
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                                    R. Edward Freeman, 
                                
                                    Daniel R. Gilbert
                                
                            (1988). 
                            Corporate Strategy and the Search for Ethics. 
                            DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)
                            
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