The behaviour of a corporation or corporations or the behaviour of a person or group of people with links to a corporation or corporations. A person or group of people can have links to a corporation or corporations that range from weak to strong. If a person or group of people exhibit corporate behaviour that does not mean the person or group of people is employed by a corporation or corporations.
A person or group of people may show corporate behaviour for different lengths of time. For some people they exhibit this behaviour at their place of work; for others it exhibited at work, home and outside the home. Many people display corporate behaviour but do not agree with actions and outcomes that result from it.
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 the rules as they may be a special form of corporation, for example, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) or charity, and have established reasons for doing so.
The proposed rules of corporate behaviour are as follows:
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.