Sentence examples for obsession with value from inspiring English sources

One is the growing investor obsession with value.

His obsession with value for public money led him to fire 40% of the city's non-uniform workers.

"It was market capitalism that did for us all, not to mention an obsession with shareholder value that helped to obscure whether much of what went on in the boom was really in the public interest".

The obsession with shareholder value began in 1976, he says, when Michael Jensen and William Meckling, two economists, published an article, "Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behaviour, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure", which argued that the owners of companies were getting short shift from professional managers.

Obviously part of the reason is the public and media obsession with property values in Britain and the nervousness of any politician in suggesting that there should be fair taxes on property.

The obsession with maximising shareholder value as the purpose of business is a recent, and deeply damaging aberration.

Schulz good-naturedly declined to take the bait; he pointed out Gombrowicz's obsession with codes of value and challenged him to be the "dragonslayer" of convention.

But it points, also, to a broader shift in public perceptions — from an appreciation of the intrinsic value of an education (its ability to widen the mind, to expose students to new ideas and experiences) to an obsession with the instrumental value of a diploma.

Yet since the 1980s, top executives of major US business corporations have invoked the flawed obsession with maximizing shareholder value to justify the exclusion of taxpayers and workers from sharing profits.

There is also the obsession with imparting British values to "hard-to-reach" children, and much talk of the need for both students and staff to "disclose" any information which suggests radicalisation.

He condemned "perverting justice for a bribe; a right to consume with no regard for social action; unfairness of economic outcome; obsession with wealth and maximising shareholder value; a winner-takes-all attitude that has taken the place of a belief in fairness and personal integrity".