To promote a friend rather than the best person for the job, or to reward a manager for incompetence or wrongdoing, is a bad way to run a business and is also unethical.Many writers on business ethics, and just about all advocates of CSR, argue that this way of thinking mistakes the proper purpose of the enterprise.
The purpose of the enterprise, we realize, is for the playwright herself to learn how to die.
The members of the coalition could not agree on answers to any of these questions, so the purpose of the enterprise was left vague.
They don't agree on the purpose of the enterprise, and even when they do they often don't agree on operational tactics.
From the start the chief purpose of the enterprise was to press the case for liberty and especially for economic liberty, an essential and inseparable, though chronically neglected, part of the broader kind.
The purpose of that enterprise is to promote collaboration between funding bodies, such as the Gates foundation itself and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, and scientists, both academic and commercial.
But that's not really the purpose of the enterprise, which is more about creating a new market, with a much broader base of generators, as well as some principles and maybe a concern for the future.
She said that the jury had been told the principle purpose of the enterprise, as the indictment charged, was to generate money for the detectives, through legal and illegal activities.
