Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation

"The author's task is to explain the values that drive business, especially those individualistic, self-focused values that seem so intransigently opposed to the sustenance of a quality community life. This problem has been taken up by many other scholars in the past, but none has brought to it the grand vision, intellectual claritu, and sense-making that Frderick gives us in this work. I recommend slow, savory, intense reading to get the full benefit of what Frederick has done for us."--Business & Society "...A very well organized, clear, interesting, useful, and comprehensive book on the nature of business decision making and behavior in the context of a theory of business values that he develops."--Academy of Management Review "...a masterwork by a scholar long interested in studying business organizations as social systems and ethical environments...a facinating journey..."--Ethics "The author's task is to explain the values that drive business, especially those individualistic, self-focused values that seem so intransigently opposed to the sustenance of a quality community life. This problem has been taken up by many other scholars in the past, but none has brought to it the grand vision, intellectual claritu, and sense-making that Frderick gives us in this work. I recommend slow, savory, intense reading to get the full benefit of what Frederick has done for us."--Business & Society "...A very well organized, clear, interesting, useful, and comprehensive book on the nature of business decision making and behavior in the context of a theory of business values that he develops."--Academy of Management Review "...a masterwork by a scholar long interested in studying business organizations as social systems and ethical environments...a facinating journey..."--Ethics