In: Operations Management
Explain what relationship must exist between shareholders and corporate managers for Friedman’s “taxation argument” against corporate social responsibility to work, and explain one reason for believing that such a relationship does not in practice exist.
The relationship between corporate managers as well the shareholders of such company shall be in a way as to facilitate good communication between them for a better corporate social responsibility.
Corporations should sometimes forgo profits in the interest of
solving social problems
- Keep prices down to help fight inflation
- Take the steps to reduce pollution
- Managers are the agents of shareholders and therefore have a
fiduciary responsibility to run the business in their
interests.
- The proper mechanism for solving social problems must be
democratic; CSR is socialism!
- It may be in a company's best interest to help society (because
it's good PR), but pretending that it is a matter of moral
responsibility is just "window dressing"