July 2020
Intermediate to advanced
164 pages
4h
English
Content preview from Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability
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Every atom is made from three kinds of elementary particles, where Neutrons have no charge. Neutrons don’t influence an atom’s identity, but they do add to its mass.
—Bill Bryson*
Knowledge is the goal of ethics. In the classificatory scheme of conformability with nature, society forms a nucleus. In the case of corporate, this is with the board, and in case of government, with the constitution. Society does not influence the identity of the Corporate Atomic Structure or the Governmental Atomic Structure but adds mass to them. Society can vote out a government, can shut a factory like Sterilite, can put a lid on a product like the mercury thermometer. It is society that is being influenced, not the other ...