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What Companies Strive For

June 12, 2018August 31, 2018 admin objectives, profit, profit maximisation

Just because some economists claim that owners of firms want to maximise their reward for ownership, their profit, does not necessarily make it true. Although we might observe that many owners of firms try to maximise their profit, this does not mean owners of firms, or firms, cannot have other objectives.

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