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Management's Responsibility to Society: The Growth of an Idea*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Morrell Heald
Morrell Heald
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Associate Professor of History At Case Institute of Technology
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Abstract

Even in laissez-faire days there was a “corporate conscience,” well defined and with active, if limited, manifestations. Over the course of years not only criticism but changing social forces and modifications of the economic system itself exerted a broadening influence on the attitude of American business toward its public responsibilities.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , Winter 1957 , pp. 375 - 384
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1957

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