It is a necessary condition for success, but does itself not connote success

It is selfish and should be avoided

It is the main goal of business

It is one of the three elements of success

To show that businesses do not have such duties

To show that these kinds of moral obligations get at the “central and essential activity of business”

To show that businesses do, in fact, have such duties

To provide another illustration of a type of issue that fails to address ethical questions about the “central and essential activity of business”

“Assessment of businesses as such and of specific business enterprises would begin with the question of whether the goods and services produced thereby serve to enhance or detract from the human condition, whether they contribute to or obstruct human flourishing.”

“Corporations should devote any of their profits to philanthropic, educational and other sorts of humanitarian undertakings.”

Businesses have duties of “neither creating nor aggravating social ills which might arise from business activity such as discriminatory employment, advancement and remuneration along racial, sexual, or other irrelevant lines, dangerous working conditions, and avoidable unemployment or worker dislocation”

“Business persons and institutions, like all other citizens, are expected to refrain from murder, from fraud, from polluting the environment.”

To show that questions about the morality of products and services are not adequately addressed by “many current discussions of business ethics.”

To show that businesses should not engage in unethical behavior

To show that the business described is a morally great one because of all the good it does—we shouldn’t let concerns about its product distract us from this

To show that businesses should not make products that can damage their public persona

This indicates what the central issue is for business ethics: making a profit while playing by the rules of the game

This is the aspect of business that sets business off from other institutions that share its primary function

This indicates what the sole moral obligation of corporate executives is: to maximize profits.

This defines the primary function and original social purpose of business

To show that profit making is the main purpose of business

To show that moral issues pertaining to how businesses make a profit is the fundamental issue in business ethics

To show that businesses should not engage in unethical behavior like stealing

To show that Milton Friedman is wrong in thinking that business ethics should be concerned with mainly the profit element of business

That we must persist in our search for criteria by which to assess the primary function of business

That we must abandon our search for criteria by which to assess the primary function of business

That the provision of goods and services—and not profit-making—is the primary function of business

That businesses cannot define their own purpose

It desensitizes them to the well-being of others, including reduced compassion, concern, and sympathy

By making money a priority, one’s conception of the good life becomes distorted

It makes them feel like work is meaningless

It leads them to neglect non-market means of satisfying non-market desires—which includes a range of virtues necessary for acquiring such goods.

He thinks that all things should be able to be bought and sold.

He is not concerned. This is just a tool for organizing our economy

He’s not sure what to think.

He is concerned because it subjects to market consideration certain goods that should not be. Doing so corrupts them in some way.

Loaves of bread can be bought at stores.

Everything is more expensive.

The sheer number of types of cereal in the grocery store.

For-profit hospitals, schools, and prisons

Groups that have put something at economic risk

Groups that have a morally *proper* interest in the corporation

Groups that can be affected by the corporation

Groups that can affect the corporation

Basic consideration is given to the interests and desires of all stakeholder groups

Views all stakeholders apart from their instrumental, economic, or legal clout

All stakeholders are treated as having equally important interests

All other stakeholder groups (not including shareholders) are considered solely in terms of how they affect the shareholders

The primary moral responsibility of the corporation is to maximizing shareholder value.

Corporations have robust moral obligations to all stakeholder groups and the basis for these obligations is to be found in the obligations that shareholders themselves have to the other stakeholders. However, except for the obligation to shareholders, these are non-fiduciary obligations.

Corporations should maximize profit regardless of how this affects everyone else.

The corporation has fiduciary duties to all stakeholders, not just to shareholders.

There is one and only one significant moral responsibility that business managers have: to maximize shareholder value.

In those cases in which a corporation can treat stakeholders unethically without any danger of negative legal or economic impact on the corporation, shareholder primacy theory says that doing so is morally permissible.

It’s based on a false claim that shareholders are owners and that managers owe fiduciary duties to shareholders.

It ignores the distinctive fiduciary relationship between management and shareholders by supposing that management bears a fiduciary duty to all stakeholders

Corporations have robust moral obligations to all stakeholder groups and the basis for these obligations is to be found in the obligations that shareholders themselves have to the other stakeholders. However, except for the obligation to shareholders, these are non-fiduciary obligations.

The primary moral responsibility of the corporation is to maximizing shareholder value.

The corporation has fiduciary duties to all stakeholders, not just to shareholders.

Corporations should maximize profit regardless of how this affects everyone else.

It ignores the distinctive fiduciary relationship between management and shareholders by supposing that management bears a fiduciary duty to all stakeholders

It doesn’t go far enough: corporations should be dismantled and seen for the corrupt institutions that they are.

There is one and only one significant moral responsibility that business managers have: to maximize shareholder value.

It illegitimately tries to incorporate ethics into business, which is a bad idea.

He thinks that corporations should maximize profit regardless of how this affects everyone else.

He thinks that corporations have robust moral obligations to all stakeholder groups and the basis for these obligations is to be found in the obligations that shareholders themselves have to the other stakeholders

He thinks that the primary moral responsibility of the corporation is to maximizing shareholder value.

He thinks that the corporation has fiduciary duties to all stakeholders, not just to shareholders

That business managers need to shift their focus from maximizing shareholder value to addressing the interests of all stakeholder groups.

That the government needs to intervene in the market place and restrict the sale of violent video games to minors.

That maximizing shareholder value should be the focus of business managers

That moving from focusing only on shareholder interest to considering all stakeholders does not provide a sufficiently broad ethical perspective. Businesses need to address the larger common good.

It is an incoherent notion because shareholders are a disparate group and different shareholders value different things (long term vs. short term investing, etc)

Corporations have a moral obligation to do it.

She’s not quite sure what to make of the idea.

It is a perfectly coherent, sensible idea, but perhaps it gets too much attention.

She thinks that it’s largely correct, though it needs to be modified somewhat.

It’s based on a false claim that shareholders are owners and that managers owe fiduciary duties to shareholders.

She agrees with it.

She rejects the capitalistic basis on which the shareholder theory is based.