Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation

In: The Ruffin Series in Business Ethics Ser

In: Ruffin Series in Business Ethics

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. Values in Business -- A Theory of Business Values: An Overview -- Economizing/Power-Aggrandizing Tensions -- Economizing/Ecblogizing Tensions -- Power-Aggrandizing/Ecologizing Tensions -- The Meaning of Value -- The Value Set of Business -- Found Values -- Original Values -- 2. The Original Values of Business -- First Original Value: Economizing -- Economizing as an Energy Transformation Process -- Entropy and Thermodynamic Laws -- Economizing as Process and Value -- Second Original Value: Growth -- Intersecting and Conflicting Growth Paths -- Third Original Value: Systemic Integrity -- Is Profit an Original Business Value? -- Original Business Values-A Summation -- 3. The Power-Aggrandizing Values of Business -- First Value: Hierarchical (Rank-Order) Organization -- Second Value: Managerial Decision Power -- Third Value: Power-System Equilibrium -- Fourth Value: Power Aggrandizement -- On the Instrumental Uses of Coercive Power -- Value Clusters I and II-A Summation -- 4. The Structure of Corporate Values -- The Concept of Culture and Its Misuse -- Corporate Culture -- The Values of Corporate Culture -- Economizing Values in Corporate Culture -- Power-Aggrandizing Values in Corporate Culture -- The Value Core of Corporate Culture -- 5. The Values of Managers -- Managers' Values: The Research Picture -- Empirical Values Research -- Nonempirical Critical Commentary -- Managers' Embodied Values -- Managers' Organizational Commitments and Attitudes -- Ethical Climates and Organizational Values -- Value Uniformity and Variety: X-Factor Values -- The Value Dimension of Managerial Work -- 6. Ecologizing Values and the Business Dilemma -- The Nature of Ecologizing Values -- First Ecologizing Value: Linkage -- Second Ecologizing Value: Diversity -- Third Ecologizing Value: Homeostatic Succession.