left to business, today profit is viewed as potentially a contribution to the public good by providing the basis for job creation, economic growth , and technological innovation. • Now the question is: what kind of behavior is the best support to a company's profitability? • Tom Peters and Waterman, in their book In Search for Excellence, say that profit could be increased by ensuring the quality and service. • Examples include Ben and Jerry’s homemade ice-cream parlor (see page 57 of Stewart’s book). • Individual and Organization: :Aristotle’s emphasis on ‘friendship’ has business correlation. :Business includes loyal customers, faithful stockholders, and dedicated workers. : Success of Japanese manufacturing has been attributed to its practice of cultivating networks of suppliers and distributers who are called Keiretsu. In such relationships, manufacturers and suppliers cooperate to produce the best product at the lowest cost. Lester Thurow asserts that the keiretsu suppliers are the best suppliers. This practice is supportive of the practices of communitarian form of capitalism. Thurow labels it communitarian capitalism. Japan and Germany possess this type of value. . Contrariwise Thurow states that USA and UK trumpet individual values ( e.g., the brilliant entrepreneur, large wage differentials, hostile mergers and takeover). Thurow labels it individualistic capitalism. David Stewart says that it is not easy to answer which capitalism is better. For him history will tell us which theory is right. But here the point is that both in Aristotle’s ethics and communitarian form of capitalism , individuals find meaning in being part of a larger whole. • The role of moderation: • Aristotelolian theme: moderation means seeking the mean between extremes( such as, between individualistic and communitarian capitalism). • Moral development: • Although Aristotle was convinced that people develop their moral character over time, he did not describe how this happens. Harvard psychologists Lawrence Kohlberg seems to provide a guideline principle in this regard. He centered his research on describing the stages of moral development through which individuals pass as they mature in their moral judgment. They are as follows: • The Preconvention level • The conventional level • Post conventional level. : The preconvention level is the one of punishment and reward. : the conventional level is one in which we seek the approval of others and submit to authority. : The postconventional level is the highest level of moral development in which people seek the general welfare and act according to universal moral principle.