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Mar 2010
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The problems with the shareholder value ...

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
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Dr Mike Lucas probes the shareholder value model, identifying its adverse effects on employees, consumers, the social and natural environment – and ultimately on shareholders themselves. 
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