Self-study
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Speaker 1 Summary
Price says that a corporation’s primary responsibility is to its shareholders. Why? Because shareholders take the biggest risks. And what risks are those? Well, if the company goes under, the shareholders lose their investment.
Speaker 2 Summary
Albrecht says that a corporation’s primary responsibility should instead be to its employees. Why? Firstly, shareholders usually have many investments (meaning their risk in a single company isn’t all that great). Secondly, an employee’s entire livelihood is at risk if the company goes bankrupt. This implies that employees actually take a greater risk, making them a more important responsibility.
Objective
We need to find a disagreement between Price and Albrecht. They disagree about whether shareholders or employees take the greatest risks, and should therefore be a company’s primary responsibility.
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Price definitely agrees with this, but Albrecht never disagrees. Albrecht thinks that shareholders shouldn’t be the primary responsibility of a corporation, but that doesn’t mean the corporation has no responsibility at all towards shareholders.
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Albrecht agrees with this, but Price doesn’t express disagreement. Price doesn’t think that employees are the primary responsibility of a corporation, but that doesn’t mean that corporations have no responsibility towards employees at all.
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Neither speaker talks about contingency measures in the case a corporation goes bankrupt. Price and Albrecht’s discussion is about who has the most to lose in a company’s bankruptcy, not what measures could help lower that risk.
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Price agrees with this but Albrecht disagrees, so this is the point of disagreement. Price claims that shareholders’ investments make them the group with the most to lose in bankruptcy. Albrecht, however, thinks employees risk more with the possible loss of their livelihoods.
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Neither speaker makes this claim. This is compatible with both Price’s and Albrecht’s arguments, but neither of them discusses one way or another if any shareholders’ livelihoods depend on a company’s success.