Planning, consciousness and conscience
Contemporary perspectives on conciousness provide us with a powerful metaphor for the corporate planning process; although organisations ultimately differ, in systems terms, from organisms., Like consciousness, planning has survival value and confers operational advantages., Whereas individuals'...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
1984
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
Year: 1984, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 113-117 |
| Further subjects: | B
Operational Advantage
B Harvard Business Review B Corporate Ideal B Metaphor B System Term |
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| Summary: | Contemporary perspectives on conciousness provide us with a powerful metaphor for the corporate planning process; although organisations ultimately differ, in systems terms, from organisms., Like consciousness, planning has survival value and confers operational advantages., Whereas individuals' actions may be guided by conscience, in pursuit of ideals, corporate acts often lack these qualities. It may be that no diffuse planning process is capable of accomodating ideals and ethical standards, they are ‘beyond’ Corporate Consciousness. Therefore, the pursuit of corporate objectives will often conflict with individuals' ideals. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/BF02388812 |