I think this is true for all corporations. In my opinion, all corporations are driven by the bottom line, not by emotions.
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Some companies value their reputation and want to protect it.
Being nasty might give you short-term profits but cost you in the long run as people will avoid dealing with your company just because of that.
I guess what's happening with companies such as Oracle is that the reputation is already ruined beyond repair and there's nothing else to lose by being nasty so they do it.
Not really, and they're not exclusive. Before profits comes the company's constitution or charter. Companies are ultimately a vehicle for its shareholder's wishes, so you have companies that are very idiosyncratic and companies established for a certain mission, etc.
That's true of companies in general, but not of corporations, and we've loaded up the corporate structure with so many advantages that it's a deal hard to resist. There are a very few companies that stay private so that they can pursue goals other than maximum short-term profit at all costs, but as a practical reality corporations are the dominant form of business today. I wish we'd go back to having enforceable time-limited charters, as the only fair trade for all the benefits we extend to corporations, but that's not the world we live in right now.
It's my pet peeve when people use "emotions" as the only alternative to something undesirable.
Corporations should be driven by the bottom line,no one questioned that. Having a purpose,long term sustainability and stability,maintaining your integrity ,not breaking laws,not harming other human beings is not being "emotional",it is as much emotional as greed is an emotion.
I find moralizing companies much scarier than amoral ones.
It's not. Tesla is ran by a pretty awesome guy. So are many other companies. Some visions happen to be compatible with ethics. When one's brand is backed by ethics, investors know what they are getting into. A lot of mountaineering companies and outback companies are actually like that.
Umm Tesla has plenty of "soulless corporation" going on - again, quit anthropomorphizing minmax optimization engines.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/tesla-wor...
https://www.revealnews.org/blog/a-users-guide-to-teslas-work...
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-factory-workers-detail...
And guess who is on Tesla’s board: Larry Ellison.