What Do Corporations Want?
Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of the Firm
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Published:26th Jun '24
Should be back in stock very soon

'Corporate purpose' has become a battleground for stakeholders’ competing desires. Some argue that corporations must simply generate profit; others suggest that we must make them create social change.
Leading organization studies scholar Timothy Kuhn argues that this 'either/or' thinking dramatically oversimplifies matters: today’s corporations must be many things, all at once.
Kuhn offers a bold new Communicative Theory of the Firm to highlight the authority that creates corporations’ identities and activities. The theory provides a roadmap for navigating that battleground of competing desires to produce more responsive corporations.
Drawing on communicative and new materialist theorizing, along with three insightful case studies, this book thoroughly redefines our understandings of what corporations are 'for'.
"Going far beyond the organization as an entity model, Kuhn explores the complicated realities of socially mediated communication as manipulated by corporations to create a radically new understanding of what corporations want. Kuhn's book keeps readers engaged with its examples grounded in specific organizations." CHOICE
"Kuhn does not merely critique unjustified inequities created by capitalism but gives us intriguing ways to go beyond the status quo to generate productive alternatives." Organization
ISBN: 9781529214277
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258 pages