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The Effects are Personal

In: The Intent of Business

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  • Gregory Gull

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Because of the very nature of humankind, with its blend of inherent abilities and needs, people create a communal framework through which their needs can be met. As people come together, creating villages, towns, cities and nations, they necessarily create systems and institutions to facilitate the meeting of their collective needs. In other words, people sustain their existence and a way of being through the societal institutions they create. Thus a society can be thought of as a network of societal systems; a network of systems wherein people and their institutions (such as systems of principles, beliefs, laws and customs) are in mutual relation for a very human purpose. So in many ways people create societal systems that serve the needs of society and these very systems inform the conduct of people’s lives in society (Figure 3.1). But what needs are served, and how they are served, depends upon the assumptions about humankind and its relationship to Nature, made by those in power who are designers and maintainers of the system.

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  • Gregory Gull, 2013. "The Effects are Personal," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Intent of Business, chapter 3, pages 52-63, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-35208-8_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137352088_4
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