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• catalog abstract "Commentators, analysts, and academics have long cherished the notion that there is a fundamental contradiction between corporate profit-seeking and ethical or social responsibility. In this powerful, long-awaited response to these critics, John Hood argues that business owners and managers have huge incentives to promote economic and social progress. Moreover, he finds, the vast majority do so. With compelling evidence, Hood demonstrates how the incentives of the private sector marketplace dwarf those of the public sector in advancing the common good. Replying to those who assert that firms must have social responsibilities beyond economic self-interest, Hood shows that corporations seeking economic rewards have made enormous strides on behalf of workers, families, consumers, and local communities by developing new products and technologies, discovering new ways to prevent workplace accidents, attempting to reduce bottom-line costs, and furthering their own long-term interests through social and community development. With detailed examples from nearly every sector of industry, Hood describes the significant contributions that most successful corporations have made to social welfare, without sacrificing their allegiance to shareholder value. By tracking the successful record of corporate involvement across a range of benchmark areas such as revitalization of the inner city, preservation of the environment, worker safety, and family values, Hood documents how businesses have brought about a wealth of positive changes to our communities. Hood turns the critics' concept of the "socially responsible" business, essentially a threat to free enterprise, on its head. Instead, by keeping a strong link between innovation and markets and competition, business continues to make its most serious social contribution by doing what it does best: providing the foundation for our standard of living and the new services that will allow us to live more comfortably and efficiently in the future.".
• catalog contributor b9700248.
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description "By tracking the successful record of corporate involvement across a range of benchmark areas such as revitalization of the inner city, preservation of the environment, worker safety, and family values, Hood documents how businesses have brought about a wealth of positive changes to our communities. Hood turns the critics' concept of the "socially responsible" business, essentially a threat to free enterprise, on its head. Instead, by keeping a strong link between innovation and markets and competition, business continues to make its most serious social contribution by doing what it does best: providing the foundation for our standard of living and the new services that will allow us to live more comfortably and efficiently in the future.".
• catalog description "Commentators, analysts, and academics have long cherished the notion that there is a fundamental contradiction between corporate profit-seeking and ethical or social responsibility. In this powerful, long-awaited response to these critics, John Hood argues that business owners and managers have huge incentives to promote economic and social progress. Moreover, he finds, the vast majority do so. With compelling evidence, Hood demonstrates how the incentives of the private sector marketplace dwarf those of the public sector in advancing the common good.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-232) and index.".
• catalog description "Library Journal Best Books".
• catalog description "Replying to those who assert that firms must have social responsibilities beyond economic self-interest, Hood shows that corporations seeking economic rewards have made enormous strides on behalf of workers, families, consumers, and local communities by developing new products and technologies, discovering new ways to prevent workplace accidents, attempting to reduce bottom-line costs, and furthering their own long-term interests through social and community development. With detailed examples from nearly every sector of industry, Hood describes the significant contributions that most successful corporations have made to social welfare, without sacrificing their allegiance to shareholder value.".
• catalog description "Responsible to whom? -- A social investment balance sheet -- Employment, layoffs, and social responsibility -- Business and the education challenge -- Revitalizing America's cities -- Promoting health and wealth -- Selling safety -- Nurturing Nature -- Business and social equality -- Family values and the workplace.".
• catalog extent "xx, 246 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "068482762X".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
• catalog subject "658.4/08 20".
• catalog subject "Commerce.".
• catalog subject "Common good.".
• catalog subject "Community-Institutional Relations.".
• catalog subject "HD 60 H776h 1996".
• catalog subject "HD60 .H66 1996".
• catalog subject "Social Responsibility.".
• catalog subject "Social responsibility of business.".
• catalog subject "Socioeconomic Factors.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Responsible to whom? -- A social investment balance sheet -- Employment, layoffs, and social responsibility -- Business and the education challenge -- Revitalizing America's cities -- Promoting health and wealth -- Selling safety -- Nurturing Nature -- Business and social equality -- Family values and the workplace.".
• catalog title "The heroic enterprise : business and the common good / John M. Hood.".
• catalog type "text".