Profit, purpose and the structures that sustain them: Dr. M. S. Sriram

Can businesses balance shareholder returns with a lasting commitment to employees, customers and society?

In a book review titled ‘The double-edged sword of a dual bottom line’ for Business Standard, Dr. M. S. Sriram, Public Policy area, examines Eric Ries’s ‘Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great’, questioning whether purpose-driven companies can outperform conventional competitors without embedding that purpose in their organizational design.