The purpose of a corporation is to conduct a lawful, ethical, profitable and sustainable business in order to create value over the long-term, which requires consideration of the stakeholders that are critical to its success (shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, creditors and communities) ...
Business corporations are perhaps the most influential organizations in society and have long been recognized as important contributors to the common good. Society grants corporations unique privileges in order to harness their great capacities to serve its needs.
It's not clear how those 4 quotes are supposed to relate to each other without added interpretation. Is there something more you'd like say?
For what it's worth, I don't know if any of those sources cover broad economic trends across history. I do find them in pursuit of noble goals for the early 2020s.
But in this case, my opinion is that there's a bit of a gulf there in between "this is how I would like things to work" and "this is how things have worked today/in the past/for a long time".
The purpose of a corporation is to conduct a lawful, ethical, profitable and sustainable business in order to create value over the long-term, which requires consideration of the stakeholders that are critical to its success (shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, creditors and communities) ...
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/business-and-society...
Business corporations are perhaps the most influential organizations in society and have long been recognized as important contributors to the common good. Society grants corporations unique privileges in order to harness their great capacities to serve its needs.
https://www.ft.com/content/482a8435-c04c-4be8-9856-941e7ecf1...
... it would abandon shareholder primacy and redefine corporate purpose to create an economy that “serves all Americans”.
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/the-role-of-the-corporation-in-so... :
... scholars Berle and Means (1932) predicted ... both owners and "the control" accepting public interest as the objective of the corporation.