Corporate behaviour

There are rules that a corporation must heed in order to survive. These rules apply to publicly-traded corporations and privately-owned corporations. Not every corporation will abide by all the rules as they may be a special form of corporation, for example, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) or charity, and has established reasons for doing so.

The proposed rules of corporate behaviour are as follows:

1. Profit 2. Grow 3. Amorality 4. Hierarchy 5. Quantification, Linearity, Segmentation 6. Competition and Aggression 7. Dehumanization 8. Exploitation 9. Ephemerality 10. Opposition to Nature 11. Homogenization

For one account of the rules of corporate behaviour, read Mander J (1991). In the Absense of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations. Sierra Club Books, San Fransisco.