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Managers of corporations SW have an obligation to serve shareholders as the shareholders would want to be served.
Therefore, corporate SBI managers have an obligation to act in the shareholders’ best interest.
The argument assumes SW → SBI that the way shareholders want to be served is in their best interest.
The business ethicist's conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?
Corporate managers are always able
This makes it possible for corporate managers to act in the shareholders’ best interest, but does not provide an obligation to do so.
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Shareholders would want to be
Why this is right
This bridges the gap SW ? SBI between the ways shareholders want to be served and those that are in the shareholders best interests.
Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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A corporate manager's obligations to
This defends the argument from corporate managers having other overriding obligations, but it does not ensure an obligation to act in the shareholders’ best interest.
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The shareholders have interests that
This does support the view that corporate managers should play a role, but it does not go far enough and ensure that corporate managers not only play a role, but are obligated to do so in a specific way.
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All shareholders want to be
Whether shareholders want to be served in identical ways is not relevant to whether corporate managers are obligated to act in ways that best serve shareholder interests.
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