ABSTRACT
Culture is an organic process that mobilises the entire organisation. It represents, to some extent, the genes of the company. It contains the values that will guide its decisions, behaviour and climate of the whole organisation. If a corporation wants to give its actions meaning, if it wants to transform its economic creativity into progress and place it within the context of other forms of human progress, the ethical dimension is as essential as the political dimension in informing and guiding their choices and behaviour. The ethics of responsibility require one to commit, to choose a direction, and to decide to transform fate into a destiny chosen by us. Real cultural change drives leaders to rethink three major business functions: creativity and innovation (entrepreneurship), organising and leading a community (leadership), and serving the common good (statesmanship). The chapter outlines some practical pathways for change to begin to restore the ethical and political dimensions to economics.
