The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit Of Profit And Power

The purpose of the textbook, Who Rules America? by G. William Domhoff, is to explain his theory of Class Domination. My essay emphasises the relation of social class to power, the existence of a Corporate community, the relationship of the Corporate community to the upper class, and various methods used by the Corporate community to dominate the U.S Political System. Furthermore, my essay will discuss the potential limits to corporate power in America.

I hate how much power corporations have in the world. I don't think many people realize how much they manipulate and push their own agendas under the nose of millions of citizens. Corporations have a lot of pull and are very persuasive. Though the article stated that spending does not contribute to corruption, I beg to differ. Corporations are very powerful and have many strong strategies to sway people their way, especially during election time. This enables corporations to control votes, which should be illegal.

The Idea of the corporation was born and chartered in the 16th century in Europe. The first endorsers of the long lasting project were. England and Holland.

In the book, The Corporation Joel Bakan presents arguments, that corporations are nothing but institutional pathological psychopaths that are “a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies.” Their main responsibility is maximizing profit for their stockholders and ignoring the means to achieve this goal, portrays them as “psychopathic.” Bakan argues that, corporations are psychopaths, corporate social responsibility is illegal, and that corporations are able to manipulate anyone, even the government.

In 1988 authors Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky published a piece of work titled “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media“, wherein they argued that the mass media carry out propaganda by way of market forces and advertising by effectively selling people to other large conglomerates. As media is financed by marketing and strategic advertising, The Propaganda Model suggests large corporations interact and thrive by directing attention and ultimately prophets at other large corporations. Since “Manufacturing Consent” was published, many have argued that the propaganda model is nothing short of a mere conspiracy theory, often widely condemned for its deterministic overview of media ownership and censorship. In the essay, I will aim to critically analyse these claims, as well as discuss the Propaganda Model itself in more detail and get to the core of the theory put forward by Chomsky and Herman.

Richard Powers’ work Gain is a tour de force of whatever it is. I say this, rather than describing it as merely a novel, although that is precisely what it is, because Powers has herein created something more than your typical story. In this work, two seemingly unrelated paths are set on ambagious paths which will ultimately culminate in their intertwining. On one path we are presented with the apotheosis of a specific corporation’s development, and on the other is the idiosyncratic life of an individual living in a place where this corporation has its hand on virtually everything. Herein Powers has presented what is probably the most riveting illustration of a fictional corporation’s rise. In fact, it is so engrossed in detail that parts of it rival real corporate histories, such as The Great A&P and Nature’s Metropolis. The central question here is derived from more than everyday consumers being buffaloed by Machiavellian corporations. Rather, Powers ascertains the question of how have we come to be where we are? In doing so, Powers destroys the illusion that geography is solely composed of maps. His illustration of how a corporation can grow, and in seeming reaction to that growth an individual woman can wither, permeates the very texture of our lives. You see, it is this mode of production, for which we all possess profound disdain, that is the source of our everyday living and experiences. Long before you or I were born, business had already replaced nature as the

“Piercing the corporate viel” refers to the judicially imposed exception to this rule by which courts disregarded the separateness of the company and consider a shareholder responsible for the company’s action as if it were the shareholder’s own. A fundamental rule of corporate law is that shareholders in an organization are not liable for the obligations of the enterprise beyond the capital that they contribute in exchange for their shares.

Christopher Buckley novel shows us the truth behind corporations the corruption and self-deceiving going on to expose who they really are some key words are corporations corruption self-deceiving and self-interest. My research question would be how to expose corruption and morality of corrupt corporations. would be end of corporations in order to make profit and cells. I have chosen to do this topic to expose his cooperation because we need to do a change I would like to know what does the government think about this and what are they doing to change it. I want my readers to think about the corporation to today and what he can do to make the

The main focus of this research has been the review and analysis of the role of government being supplanted by corporations. The topic of study related to this problem is corporations/corporatism and their influence in governing affairs. Analysis of corporations will be reviewed through the lens of Liberalism and Constructivism. Through the application of Liberalism and Constructivism it will determine if corporatism/neo-corporatism is diminishing individual rights and liberties by moving government from the public sphere to a private one. This research is important in understanding how the role of government is becoming a corporate institution, not based on laws but on policies for profit. The direct impact corporatization of government has

Although, I have never been the CEO of a company; The Five Temptation of a CEO by Patrick Lencioni is a book that gives leadership advice in a way that could be useful for anyone. The book focuses on the new CEO of a company called, Trinity Systems, Andrew O’Brien. The eve of his first board meeting, he stayed at the office much later than usually. Andrew is facing the results of the company in the year that he had been CEO, which were “unspectacular at best.” A majority of the book takes place in an unlikely setting. Andrew is taking a BART train home where he meets an old man, who seems to be a janitor of some sort. Charlie, the old man, approaches Andrew to dig into what seems to be bothering him. After a bit of probing, Charlie uncovers Andrew’s struggles with his company. Andrew condescendingly states, “I don’t know how much you know about business, but being a CEO is pretty complicated.” Charlie offers the opinion that being a CEO is really quite simple and is all based on avoiding “the five temptations of a CEO”. Andrew is hesitant to take advice from him; “what could a janitor know about being a CEO?” but, humors the man anyway.

I always knew that corporations just wanted your money, but after watching the documentary I was pretty outraged at what many companies will do just to get it. The complete disregard for human health and well-being is flabbergasting to me. Kids in sweat shops, people dying from simple staph infections, and many more horrible things that companies do to make a buck are ridiculous. If companies are given most rights people do, then they should be given the same punishments that people would if they would do any of the things these corporations are doing. Some of these companies aren’t getting away with it, but many are still and more needs to be done in order to stop harming the

Ray Anderson’s speech that he presented at an Emerging Issues Forum is included in The Corporation. However, before his speech is presented within the documentary, Ray Anderson is shown admitting in several clips throughout the film that he is guilty of being a plunderer of the earth. Within his speech, he proposes principles that corporations should follow that are in alignment with his plunderer revelation. His proposed principles are for corporations to be committed to having a purpose. He believes that the purpose should be for their corporations to do no harm. He speaks on severing the umbilical cord to earth through taking already extracted raw materials and using them over and over again. Lastly, he wants to climb the mountain of sustainability, while leaving zero foot point. Corporations are doing harm to society by having zero concern for the public. The documentary calls corporations, “monsters” that do nothing but devour as much profit as possible at the expense of anyone. Ray Anderson came to this realization and wanted to do something about it. Joan Tronto’s four ethical elements of care support Ray Anderson’s efforts and shed light on how corporations can be restructured to meet Anderson’s proposed principles. Her four ethical elements of care include, attentiveness, choosing to suspend ones own goals, ambitions, and plans in order to recognize and respond to the needs of others. Responsibility, looking beyond obligations in order to see what can directly or

When we saw the movie “The Corporation”, they were called all the business men for psychopaths without conscience. According to the movie “The Corporation”, when they interview Robert Hare, a consultant who is working for the FBI. Robert Hare said: “Corporations by definition have a personality disorder and can be categorized as psychopathic. That is because they single-mindedly pursue their own wills and desires without any consideration for other people (or corporations) and without reference to conventional morality. They don't act that way to be evil; it's just, as the scorpion explained to the frog, that it's in their nature.” The next question is, what is the different between a “Human psychopath” and a “corporate psychopaths”? In the

“It’s not you, it’s me”: Think of a business partnership as a relationship. Moreover, a relationship which you are fiscally tied to. It’s important to be able to walk away from a partnership, or be able to end the partnership. There must be a specific process to this, otherwise, chapter 11 may be in the works.

Over the years, the corporate world has been and continues to be plagued with high profile scandals and unethical business practices on the pretext of creating social and business values. For most global companies, corporate social responsibility and sustainability have become mere watchwords despite the fact they claim being their prominent company agendas. The reality is companies are too blind and ruthless to draw lessons from the past. Exxon’s Climate change controversy(1980’s), Nike’s sweatshop crisis (1990s) or even BP’s Deepwater oil spill (2010) are some of the most outrageous corporate scandals that shook the corporate world. Despite all these scandals, the recent Volkswagen’s emissions scandal (2015) is a clear indication that businesses will resort to any means to make money. These short-lived decisions have no doubt yet again created public cynicism in corporations and will continue to haunt their social accountability and responsibility. Volkswagon’s (VW) reputation, built up over decades, was in tatters overnight because of poor leadership vision and unethical business practices. Its emission scandal caught the corporate world gobsmacked and brought business ethics to the forefront and ripped into the stakeholder’s consciousness. What was supposed to be fuel efficient, eco-friendly people’s car turned out to be an environmental polluting monster, duping 11 million customers globally of their trust in the process. VW’s outrageous culture to mislead the