> with a largely liberal employee base
Corporations are chartered to act on behalf of the interests of their shareholders, not, insofar as the two groups are different, their employees.
Corporations are chartered to act on behalf of the interests of their shareholders, not, insofar as the two groups are different, their employees.
2) The article specifically references employees, so I also added that angle.
Sure, but literally anything can be “acting with values”, depending on the value system chosen. There's no particular reason that would be determined by the political preferences of employees. It would be more natural for a corporation interested in sacrificing near term returns for some kind of ethics to do so based on the shareholders preferences than employers (or, if the gesture at ethics was intended as a long term business health approach, to do so based on what it was expected potential future customers would respond well to in the corporate story.)