At 14:55 10/07/01 -0700, you wrote: >Quite honestly Keith this is balderdash! > >Private corporations are certainly good at certain things--optimizing >certain fairly narrow forms of technical/organizational behaviours; >oreganizing resources in support of those optimizations; innovating, >particularly from an applied technology perspective within fairly narrow >parameters; but certainly democratic accountability is not one of them. Quote from today's Independent (by no means a right-wing newspaper): <<<< Many companies are conducting their business in the spotlight of public opinion as never before. Whether they anger just their shareholders, or wider coalitions such as environmental activists or corporate responsibility campaigners, executives must expect to have to answer to somebody outside the company for their decisions. The all-day, everywhere media and the new scope for organising campaigns by e-mail and mobile phones has greatly extended external scrutiny of business decisions. Diane Coyle, Economics Editor, Independent, 11 July 2000 >>>> Keith H ___________________________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Calus <http://www.calus.org> 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________
