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B>SEVERAL years ago, Charles Handy, in a 1990 memorial address to the Royal Society for the Arts, Commerce and Manufactures, posed the question “What is a company for?” In his case, the question was somewhat rhetorical, for he wanted to argue that: 

The principal purpose of a company is not to make a profit – full stop. It is to make a profit in order to continue to do things or make things, and to do so even better and more abundantly. (Handy, 1995, p.61)