Message-ID: <199701071402.XAA21065@ms1.niftyserve.or.jp> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 22:51:00 +0900 From: Martin Sieg <mailto:QWA01214@NIFTYSERVE.OR.JP> Subject: Re: THE CORPORATE MACHINES To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Excuse my ignorance,But, Are corporations not, somewhere within their complicated works, still run by people? or have they become completely individual, sentient (but sensel ess) machines that continue their destructive course without any controlor gui dance?
If, as I suspect, there are some few, or many, people that control the activ ities of the corporations, then I believe they can eventually be pressured to change their ways - i.e. through share-holders' opinions. In this case, would you agree that one extremely important approach to reversing the process of de struction is to convince all of the people involved in these corporations that there is a better way?
It has been proven that there are alternative business practices that are no t only environmentally (people and cultures are part of the environment) frien dly, or even beneficial, but also profitable. I am sorry I do not presently have access to specific references, but I reca ll seeing a convincing documentay, by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (C BC), with several examples, last spring.
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I admit I am quite unknowledgable of many of the issues recently being discuss ed.
I have been learning much from reading all of the postings.
Thank you,
Martin Sieg PD Burma - Japan & WUSC-Brock Student Committee Alumnus