Abstract

The article focuses on business and society and the book, "The Corporate Dilemma: Traditional Values Versus Contemporary Problems," by S. Prakash Sethi and Dow Votaw. The Universities of California at Los Angeles and at Berkeley are significant centers for research and dialogue about business and the U.S. society. This book is largely a reprint of articles published since 1966 by two principal Berkeley investigators, Dow Votaw and S. Prakash Sethi. The book gives an opportunity to trace the development of ideas of these scholars and to sort out lessons learned about the interplay of business and its American socio-cultural-legal environment. For these authors the interplay of business and society is of traditional values and philosophies in juxtaposition with current social issues, generating ambiguities, frustrations, tensions and the dilemmas reflected in the title of the book. For these authors the interplay of business and society is of traditional values and philosophies in juxtaposition with current social issues, generating ambiguities, frustrations, tensions and the dilemmas reflected in the title of the book.