Sentence examples for profit imperative from inspiring English sources

[Universities] got taken over by this profit imperative and when enough corporate influencers got into enough positions of influence, the entire ethos shifted".

A description of this abstruse subject on the Academy of Management website announces that "Our premise is that structural features of contemporary society, such as the profit imperative, patriarchy, racial inequality and ecological irresponsibility often turn organisations into instruments of domination and exploitation".

So, despite some positive early signs, Elkington and others believe a huge leap is required: nothing less than a rewriting of the capitalist rule book, it was suggested, so that the profit imperative does not send the other ledgers of people and planet deep into the red.

The rising demands of the profit imperative against a backdrop of public distraction have yielded the soft porn of network "reality" programming, the elimination of taboos on cable and a mix of desperation and opportunism across the board in commercial TV, which the words of the news division journalists and executives echo.

But many papers can remain sustainable if they are managed properly and driven less by profit imperatives than a commitment to public service.

The president's basic message to the business community — "I get it," he said of the profit-making imperative — was joined with an admonition that corporate America must feel some sense of duty as well.

But really there's nothing behind that mask but a profit-maximizing imperative.

And for the overarching business imperative: profit.

There is no imperative, no profit, that could make Steven Gerrard, Liverpool's captain think it is right to play on that day.

Perhaps if the Nasdaq continues to tumble, professional expertise will actually come back into vogue, and the dull imperatives of profit and loss will again govern stock prices.

Smith himself warned that the division of labour, by routinizing work, would render workers "as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become," and Marx raised the spectre of alienation as the social price paid for subordinating production to the imperatives of profit making.