The corporation

A Corporation can be defined as a group of people with different abilities working together for the same goal, but this is just an innocent concept because when the first corporations appeared, also appeared the desire for growth, and this is what starts “corrupting” corporations, in the way they began thinking in productivity as a principal matter “more per man hour” so corporations get immersed into a very competitive environment in which they only were concerned about making profits, expanding and improving production processes in order to be more efficient, productive and in consequence competitive, so this creates a continuous cycle where principles, values and concern for others were leaved behind and finally forgotten.

The dominant institutions known as corporations are described as “bad apples” due to the damage they cause to the entire society.

“Corporations are artificial creations”, are like monsters trying to obtain as much profit as it is possible.

Under the law a corporation is a legal person who is a member of the society and have the same rights than every person, like buy or sell or borrow money, but with the huge difference that they have no body, no soul, no concern for the people around them or the damage they are causing, their only interest is to make so much money as they can, in order to fulfill the expectations of the stakeholders, to gain more investment, to attract more stakeholders and keep growing, so here come the cycle again; it doesn’t stops until this aggressive competitive world end by eating them.

Even they have the same rights than a person, they cannot go to jail, or be punishes like the rest of us, but the guilt must lie on someone, and this someone should be the individuals responsible for the actions taken by the corporation, because the corporation doesn’t act by itself, persons control them and that persons that could be directors, managers, employees or stakeholders should be judged for the actions the corporations make, that in one way or another attempt against society.

As a legal organizational model, how does the rise of corporations influence the aspects of culture in pursuing profit?

Organizations are always looking to make more profit, and for a lot of those corporations ‘’there is no such thing as enough’’ in this constant search to make profit they tend to overlook the public good, and make other people pay for the things they do, this is due to their impact on society, which can be good at times but can also abuse cultures, a corporation is design to accomplish certain objectives in a very efficient way even if they have to inflict harm on others, the documentary of the corporation levels theses enterprises as an ‘’externalizing machine’’.

Working conditions in some factories are horrible and workers get basically exploited, spending too much time at the factories and getting paid very little for their work. These corporations come into poor cultures, societies or countries as labor costs significantly lees, but they tend to underpay workers, this is all tight up with the constant peruse of making more and more profits.

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information retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pin8fbdGV9Y and the corporation video in general.