Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Entrepreneurial Performance and Public Accountability

  • Chapter
Facing Public Interest

Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics ((IBET,volume 8))

  • 117 Accesses

Abstract

This paper first outlines general concepts of free choice and responsibility, which leads to the basic notion that persons and corporations are above all accountable for what they may control themselves, their plans and actions, and less for subsequent tragic incidents.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
eBook
USD 16.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Notes

  1. The bulk of this paper is drawn from material in the third and fourth chapter of my Essence of Business Ethics. This book will be published by Prentice Hall International in July/August 1995.

    Google Scholar 

  2. The latter expression is borrowed from Ulrich, P.: Die Grossunternehmung als quasiöffentliche Institution. Stuttgart: Poeschel 1977.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Bank, J.: The Essence of Total Quality Management. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall International 1992, 15.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Kok, J./ Oosterveld, H.: Certificering en kwaliteitszorg. Groningen: KPMG Klynveld Management Consultants 1993. This report is published by KPMG Netherlands in a quite limited number. The NRC article The silent green revolution of quality care refers to this source (cf. note 6).

    Google Scholar 

  5. Bird, F.B./ Waters, J.A.: The moral muteness of managers. California Management Review, 32, Fall 1989, 74–88. Reprinted in: Drummond, J./ Bain, B. (eds.): Managing Business Ethics. Oxford: Butterman-Heineworth 1994, 89-106.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Westerwoudt, T.: The silent green revolution of quality care. Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant (Dutch Newspaper), 25 July 1994 (“De stille groene revolutie van de kwaliteitszorg”).

    Google Scholar 

  7. Banks (1992: XI).

    Google Scholar 

  8. McConnel, M.: Challenger — A Major Malfunction. London: Unwin Paperbacks 1987, 7.

    Google Scholar 

  9. In chapter 4 of my Essence of Business Ethics (1995) one may find additional comments.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Bird/Waters (1989: 82).

    Google Scholar 

  11. Bird/Waters (1989: 83-84).

    Google Scholar 

  12. Bird/Waters (1989: 83).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Peter Pratley
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Business Ethics, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Peter Ulrich (Chair of Business Ethics, Director) & Charles Sarasin (Chair of Business Ethics, Director) & 

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 1995 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Pratley, P. (1995). Entrepreneurial Performance and Public Accountability. In: Ulrich, P., Sarasin, C. (eds) Facing Public Interest. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0399-2_7

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0399-2_7

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-7923-3634-1

  • Online ISBN: 978-94-011-0399-2

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation