STATE GOALS GROUPS AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

The Seventies have experienced a proliferation of citizen, city, state, national and international groups aiming at designing alternative futures for a better society. With few exceptions these groups have neglected to incorporate into their designs the private corporation as an important determinant of these futures. In this paper we provide a conceptual framework which identifies the role of the private corporation as an indispensable agent in future developments. The framework discards the contemporary form of a corporation and proposes a new organic firm.