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Companies are run by people and, in my experience, the overwhelming majority of people want to do the right thing. The challenge is, of course, to figure out what the “right thing” is in a specific moment in time and when making a specific decision.
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Rosenberg, M. (2015). The Logic of Business: Governance and the Environment. In: Strategy and Sustainability. IESE Business Collection. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-50175-2_2
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