CHAPTER 9

Good Citizenship Is Good Business

Citizenship is establishing itself as the requisite mind-set for doing business in the 21st Century

—Ged Hedstrom

Over the past few years there has been an increasing recognition by organizations that there is a need to accept that they are responsible to a growing body of core stakeholders, suppliers, customers, employees, society, and government. With the growth in stakeholder management, organizations have at last begun to realize that good citizenship is good for business. Furthermore, there is evidence that there are green shoots of understanding, that there is a moral choice to be made in regard to wealth distribution. Social harmony is believed to be the proper choice by many, but not all organizations ...

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