{"product_id":"what-do-corporations-want-9781529214284","title":"What Do Corporations Want?","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the National Ccommunication Association's Outstanding Monograph award, Organizational Communication Division, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n'Corporate purpose' has become a battleground for stakeholders’ competing desires. Some argue that corporations must simply generate profit; others suggest that we must make them create social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nLeading organization studies scholar Timothy Kuhn argues that this 'either\/or' thinking dramatically oversimplifies matters: today’s corporations must be many things, all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nKuhn offers a bold new Communicative Theory of the Firm to highlight the authority that creates corporations’ identities and activities. The theory provides a roadmap for navigating that battleground of competing desires to produce more responsive corporations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nDrawing on communicative and new materialist theorizing, along with three insightful case studies, this book thoroughly redefines our understandings of what corporations are 'for'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Timothy Kuhn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48281051824379,"sku":"9781529214284","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781529214284.jpg?v=1772484542","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/what-do-corporations-want-9781529214284","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}