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The Purpose of Values in Social Systems: Viability

In: Future Viability, Business Models, and Values

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  • Friedrich Glauner

    (Cultural Images Values Management
    Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

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Companies are social systems. People form them in order to make complex products and services that no single person could create, such as automobiles, televisions, mobile phones, or heart surgery, spaceflight, a stage production of King Lear, or a concert of Beethoven’s Fifth. The foundation of a company happens because there are people who need to work together to overcome a complex need, that is, create substantive value. We can see how all commercial activities are inherently bound to certain values in the benefits the company is planning to create. Who is to benefit and in what way depends on the values that sustain the company’s purpose and form the core of its business model.

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  • Friedrich Glauner, 2016. "The Purpose of Values in Social Systems: Viability," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Future Viability, Business Models, and Values, chapter 5, pages 39-43, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-34030-2_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-34030-2_5
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