Shareholders Stakeholders and US Health Care

摘要

August 19, 2019 was a big day for the business Roundtable (TBR), the Washington, DC non‐profit association of chief executive officers of major US companies. The organization released a new “Statement on the Purpose of the Corporation” signed by 183 CEOs declaring that the interests of workers, customers, communities, and “other stakeholders” should be as important as the interests of a company's shareholders.1 This represented a significant change from its 1997 Statement that declared “the principal object of a business is to generate economic returns to its owners.”