This workshop features among the 2024 initiatives approved by the Department of Management & Technology for developing the discussion among the faculty and international networks of scholars clustering around emerging perspectives. The emerging perspective, even field, is an interdisciplinary management and law approach; in this case applied to contributing to the currently flourishing debate on ‘purposes,’ and corporate purposes in particular. In fact, it became already evident in the criticism to the “shareholderism” that any serious analysis of those issues should also consider inputs from law and economics; and should be highly relevant for core management fields, such as strategy, organization, and control.
The keynote speeches should contribute to clarify the different ways in which purposes can be conceived and justified, to distinguish ethical from efficiency and contractual foundations, and to address enforcement problems.