美国CEO集体重新定义公司Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation by 200 US CEOs(1).docxVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 美国CEO集体重新定义公司 Nearly 200 CEOs just agreed on an updated definition of “the purpose of a corporation” Since 1997, the Business Roundtable, America’s most influential group of corporate leaders, has agreed on one principle: “The paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the corporation’s stockholders,” its? mission statement declared. The interests of other stakeholders, like employees, were only “relevant as a derivative of the duty to stockholders.” Now, however, the group has released? a statement on the purpose of a corporation?that is radically differen