{"product_id":"what-do-corporations-want-timothy-kuhn-9781529214284","title":"What Do Corporations Want?: Communicative Capitalism, Corporate Purpose, and a New Theory of the Firm","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the National Ccommunication Association's Outstanding Monograph award, Organizational Communication Division, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 'Corporate purpose' has become a battleground for stakeholders' competing desires. Some argue that corporations must simply generate profit; others suggest that we must make them create social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Leading organization studies scholar Timothy Kuhn argues that this 'either\/or' thinking dramatically oversimplifies matters: today's corporations must be many things, all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kuhn offers a bold new Communicative Theory of the Firm to highlight the authority that creates corporations' identities and activities. The theory provides a roadmap for navigating that battleground of competing desires to produce more responsive corporations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on communicative and new materialist theorizing, along with three insightful case studies, this book thoroughly redefines our understandings of what corporations are 'for'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Kuhn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1529214289\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781529214284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bristol University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.54d","brand":"Timothy Kuhn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425319239935,"sku":"9781529214284","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34546532-09a4-4023-b723-6921743d8d47.jpg?v=1761538418","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-do-corporations-want-timothy-kuhn-9781529214284","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}