New Values, New Conflicts
质疑弗雷德里克关于企业与社会价值观冲突的理论,批评其未明确价值优先级、依赖功利主义平衡利益,并反对其文化相对主义立场。
Although maintaining that Frederick’s book Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation(1995) provides a new way to think about what often appear to be competing values of business and society generally, this article raises several questions about Frederick’s theory. In particular, the author challenges Frederick’s failure to develop a clear priority system between the value clusters he defines and the utilitarian approach he uses to balance interests. The article is critical of his apparent disagreement with a concept of universal values as well as his related support of cultural relativism.