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Corporations pursue as much profit as possible in the free market. One of the ways private corporations do this is to become larger by adopting a joint-stock form. The joint-stock corporation has a large number of stockholders and employees1 and supplies products or services to many people. If it pursues profits egoistically, great damage to society can occur.2 Therefore, some believe that a private corporation, especially a large one, comes to be regarded more as a social entity rather than simply as a private one.
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Yokoyama, M. (2007). Environmental Pollution by Corporations in Japan. In: Pontell, H.N., Geis, G. (eds) International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34111-8_15
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