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- Title
MACHIAVELLI'S PRINCE AS CEO.
- Authors
D'Andrade, Kendall
- Abstract
The Machiavellian model is often praised as a realistic description of modern corporate life. My analysis of "The Prince" follows Rousseau in arguing that the prince can survive and prosper most easily by creating an environment in which almost all the citizens prosper. Far from licensing unrestrained self-aggrandizement, in this model success only comes from providing real value to almost every citizen for the entire period of one's leadership. Translation from the early sixteenth to the late twentieth century is far from simple; for example, the CEO is in many ways far less powerful than a Medici prince. The closest approximation is a far less bureaucratic organization with very small units possessing maximum autonomy. Also, deciding who is, and who is not, a citizen is not nearly as straightforward as it was for Machiavelli; it probably includes every stakeholder on whom the corporation has a major impact.
- Publication
Business Ethics Quarterly, 1993, Vol 3, Issue 4, p395
- ISSN
1052-150X
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.2307/3857285