{"title":"Firm's Objectives: A Synthesis","authors":"Chendrayan Chendroyaperumal","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1334727","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The views on the objectives of a firm are many, varied and some are contradicting. This paper attempts to identify the primary objective of a firm from the primary objective of an economy and synthesizes the hitherto different objectives to get a holistic view. This has interesting implications for the recent environmental concerns, social responsibility of business, and questions the need for a separate theory of public firm.","PeriodicalId":199069,"journal":{"name":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SEIN Social Impacts of Business eJournal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1334727","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The views on the objectives of a firm are many, varied and some are contradicting. This paper attempts to identify the primary objective of a firm from the primary objective of an economy and synthesizes the hitherto different objectives to get a holistic view. This has interesting implications for the recent environmental concerns, social responsibility of business, and questions the need for a separate theory of public firm.