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Hello friends: Lately I am finding that when discussing issues about externalities and specifically organizations that knowingly produce products with cancer causing agents in them (ie: cosmetics), business students often reply with "well everything causes cancer now." For example, ...

Hello: Has anyone come across any recent research that investigates the influence that large institutional investors and / or market analysts have on a firm's stock price. Or the influence they may have on a CEO's profit focus? Thanks, Scott -- Scott R. Colwell, ...

An interesting paper worth having students read that quotes some of Bakan's book "The Corporation" is Munshi and Kurian 2005 "Imperializing spin cycles..." in Public Relations Review 31, 513-520. Another thing to consider given that some see the movie as one-sided. Hasn't business ...

Hello, I recall reading an article recently regarding corporate social responsibility but it stated that what hasn't happened yet is the philosophical debate of whether we really want corporations to be so powerful that they are the only solution to society's ill. (or something ...

Colleagues: (My apologies for any cross posting) I am looking to measure either (i) firm profit motive, or (ii) firm profit motive in relation to societal motive. Essentially I want to measure the degree to which a firm is driven by a profit motive versus driven by doing good in ...