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Toward a theory of business
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What is the purpose of business? While most agree that business minimally involves the creation of value, a blurred double image of value haunts our discussion of purpose. The image of what counts as value for a single firm is laid atop an image of what counts as value for business in general. These two images cannot match. Indeed, the resulting conceptual blurriness is a classic example of a composition fallacy. We should never mistake the properties of a part for the properties of the whole. A theory of the firm is ill equipped to handle the many expectations we hold for business practice. As such, we seek to establish the beginnings of a theory of business, one that is both empirical and normative. Offering four central propositions about the purpose, accountability, control and success of business, we close with a consideration of several important theoretical issues and practical opportunities that await us in the years ahead.
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- Authors
- Donaldson, T., & Walsh, J. P.
- Venue
- Research in Organizational Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015
- Volume
- 35
- Pages
- 181-207
- ISSN
- 0191-3085 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2219606438
- Cited by
- 283
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 54.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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