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REMAKING AMERICAN VALUES
NEIL W. CHAMBERLAIN

Challenge to a Business Society 

More than most nations, ours is a business society whose values have historically tended to reflect those of our business leaders.  But as both the conditions of American society and the characteristics of American business leadership have changed, the ability of traditional business values to command loyalties or, indeed, meet the objective needs of our society (including those of business) has diminished, and the dominant role of business has necessarily been challenged.  The stage has been set for the emergence of a different group of leaders with different values to replace the present corporate elite. 

It is the theme of this thoughtful book by one of American business's most perceptive critics that this new group is most likely to emerge from among the ranks of business itself.  In his widely discussed The Limits of Corporate Responsibility, Professor Chamberlain spelled opt in considerable detail why corporate enterprise, as current constituted, cannot be expected to deal with the major problems for which society has come to hold it responsible.  Here he suggests what changes in corporate organizations are necessary to permit the rise of new 

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