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What is a Company For?
Author(s) -
Handy Charles
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
corporate governance: an international review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1467-8683
pISSN - 0964-8410
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8683.1993.tb00004.x
Subject(s) - management , epistemology , engineering ethics , philosophy , engineering , economics
This article is a precis of the Michael Shanks Memorial Lecture delivered to the Royal Society on 5 December 1990. In it the author raises a number of philosophical questions about the nature of the corporate enterprise which challenge some of the shibboleths of current thinking. It is published in the expectation that it will stimulate thought and comment.