{"product_id":"9781529214284","title":"What Do Corporations Want? : Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of the Firm","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the National Ccommunication Association's Outstanding Monograph award, Organizational Communication Division, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeading 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eKuhn 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\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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":"Bristol University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49254265094371,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781529214284-1.jpg?v=1788392996","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781529214284","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}