Rethinking Corporate Power to Tackle Grand Societal Challenges: Lessons from Political Philosophy
通过评述三本关于气候变化、职场权力滥用和不公平国际贸易的书籍,强调决策者的道德指南针对于实现更公平和可持续结果的重要性,并主张放弃功利主义,在个人和组织层面拥抱道德与自我治理。
We review three books that examine three interrelated grand challenges: climate change, abusive power in the workplace, and unfair international trading relations. The main take-away is that decision makers’ moral compass is centrally important to bring about more equitable and sustainable outcomes. Although the three books differ in structure and style, the shared wisdom that emerges from them is that we should abandon utilitarian approaches and embrace morality and self-governance at both the individual and organizational level in order to overcome the profit-making logic that dominates much of corporate action in today’s capitalist systems.