Business Management

Each company must face the decision on their own as to what sort of ethical guidelines they want to follow. While Friedman (1970) made the case that a business only has social responsibility to earn profits, this theory is not airtight. It is based on agency theory, that management is working as agents of the shareholders. The shareholders are rational investors whose only desire is to make more money. This discounts the fact that investors have access to a wide range of information about a company -- for example they can review the Sustainability Report if the company has one, or its statements about ethics and social responsibility. With this information publicly available, shareholders can easily understand prior to purchase what the company stands for and how it will behave. If CanGo has made any sort of indication that it will only market games that are fully responsible,...
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