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This 10-page paper outlines business and its uneasy relation to the society in which it functions. Topics discussed include the contemporary relationship between business and society, social issues and pressures on today's business; a business' relationship with its shareholders and stakeholders, business and technology and entitlement. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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with society. Although it is corporations that hold up society and support it (through taxes and employment), the relationship is an uneasy one and has been, almost from the start.
Evidence of that can be found in the media, which tends to castigate corporations for wrongdoing, while ignoring some of the good these entities provide to the community.
In this paper, we will examine some of the relationships between corporations and society, as well as corporations and technology and corporations and employees.
While it is difficult to come to conclusions under such situations, its interesting to observe the ever-changing role of corporations. RELATIONSHIP WITH SOCIETY Roles and Responsibilities of Corporations to the
Community Once upon a time, most businesses considered they had only one responsibility to the communities in which they worked: mainly, to
ensure adequate investment of shareholder dividends to produce a decent profit (and hopefully dividends for those shareholders (Cleo et al, 2003). Yet as much of the media has reported during
the past decade, the responsibility of most corporate citizens is traveling way behind simply making a profit and into trying to be "politically correct" as well.
Before we continue with our line of reasoning, lets first discuss the concept of "community" as it pertains to corporations. There is, first and foremost, the
community of shareholders who believe in a particular business to the point where they are willing to put their money into a company (mostly through purchasing shares of stock). Its
often been said (as mentioned in the beginning of this section) that a business responsibility is to this "collective" community; if not for the shareholders, the business wouldnt have the
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