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“A situation where a solution to a stakeholder problem is imposed by a government agency or the courts must be seen as a managerial failure.”

Book:Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success

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Managing for Stakeholders: Survival, Reputation, and Success

This book explores the principles and practices of managing stakeholders effectively to ensure the survival, reputation, and success of an organization. It delves into the complexities of stakeholder relationships and offers practical advice for maintaining positive interactions with various groups, including employees, customers, suppliers, and the community. more

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R. Edward Freeman

R. Edward Freeman is a renowned philosopher known for his contributions to business ethics, strategic management, and organizational theory. His research emphasizes the importance of corporate social responsibility and ethical decision-making in modern business management, having a profound impact on the field of modern enterprise management. more

“Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.”

Kind War Facts Political Individual Economy Position Theory Fundamentals Slavery All Kinds Maxims Free Society Laissez Faire Political Economy

Book:Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

Source: Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

“A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself. If it had, it would be arbitrary. It might make itself what it pleased; and wherever such a right is set up, it shows there is no constitution.”

Ifs Shows Government Might Would Be Principles Constitution Arbitrary Constitutional Government

Book:The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis

“It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.”

Prison Debate

Author:David Hockney

“The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.”

Law Certain Congress Supreme Spheres Binding

Book:Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton

Source: Selected writings and speeches of Alexander Hamilton

“But, to protect men, we must have the power of controlling them. We must first enslave them before we can protect them.”

Men Firsts Protect

Book:A Controversy on Slavery Between George Fitzhugh and A. Hogeboom

Source: A Controversy on Slavery Between George Fitzhugh and A. Hogeboom

“The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.”