The basic rules of business used to be fairly simple. They argue that business practices that harm workers, the community or the environment will hurt the company itself in the long run.
Some writers take the idea a step farther.
And that's my point. Kelley points out that corporations receive money from stock sales only when they release new stock, which large companies seldom do. Otherwise, money goes from one speculator to another, not to the company. But some stockholders, exercising what democracy is available to them, have taken matters into their own hands. All publicly-traded companies are required to allow stockholders to make proposals at some level.