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According to the Report of the Special Review Committee of the Board of Directors of Gulf Oil Corporation:
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J.J. McCloy, N.W. Pearson, and B. Matthews, The Great Oil Spill (New York: Chelsea House, 1976), p. 31.
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Ibid., p. 13.
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R. Powell, The Law of Agency (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1965), p. 7.
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W. Goodman, “Stocks Without Sin,” Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co., Inc. Reprinted in R. Baum (ed.), Ethical Arguments for Analysis (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975), p. 206.
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M. Friedman, “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits,” see p. 18ff. of this book.
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Powell, The Law of Agency, p. 312.
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Section 387 as quoted in P.I. Blumberg. “Corporate Responsibility and the Employee’s Duty of Loyalty and Obedience: A Preliminary Inquiry,” The Corporate Dilemma, D. Votaw and S.P. Sethi (eds.) (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1973), p. 87.
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J.E. Smyth and D.A. Soberman, The Law and Business Administration in Canada (Toronto: Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd., 1968), p. 360.
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Section 385 as quoted in Blumberg, “Corporate Responsibility,” p. 86.
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Ibid.
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Powell, The Law of Agency, p. 302.
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Ibid., p. 303.
- 13.
Ibid., p. 321.
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Michalos, A.C. (2017). The Loyal Agent’s Argument. In: How Good Policies and Business Ethics Enhance Good Quality of Life. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50724-8_6
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