Why Firms Should Not Always Maximize Profits

By Ivar Kolstad. 2007

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Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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In Information Systems and Management

1. Alexánder Guzmán Vásquez
2. Ryan Casey
3. María Andrea Trujillo Dávila
4. Jonathan H. Grenier

In Marketing

1. Alexánder Guzmán Vásquez
2. Ryan Casey
3. María Andrea Trujillo Dávila
4. Jonathan H. Grenier

In Strategy and Management

1. Jonathan H. Grenier
2. Alexánder Guzmán Vásquez
3. Ryan Casey
4. María Andrea Trujillo Dávila

Citations in the corpus

• Emprendimiento social - revisión de literatura (2008, background): “Ante esta corriente de pensamiento, Kolstad (2007) argumenta que la existencia de un acuerdo entre gerentes y propietarios (en el que los gerentes persiguen el bienestar de los propietarios), no exime a ninguno de los dos grupos de responsabilidades con terceras partes, que es razonablemente ético…”
• The Supply of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosures Among U.S. Firms (2009, unknown): “4 For a compelling and step-by-step refutation of the proposition that the only moral duty that a manager has is to maximize profits, see Kolstad (2007), who also concludes that justifications of CSR activities based on expected profits also cannot be sustained under ethical theory. unrelated to…”
• Understanding and Contributing to the Enigma of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Assurance in the United States (2015, background): “5 Some researchers adopt an ethical perspective where firms engage in and report on CSR activities as it is simply the right thing to do (e.g., Joyner and Payne 2002; Kolstad 2007).”