Managers’ increased focus on maximizing shareholder value won many adherents when the idea was introduced in the 1980’s: the impersonal discipline of financial markets would force companies to become more productive and innovative. And, in fact, much of the US productivity increase in the 1980’s and 1990’s can likely be attributed to large-scale investment in information and communications technology.
经理们增加对最大化股东价值的关注在20世纪80年代这个观点被引进来的时候赢得了许多的支持者：不考虑个人情感的金融市场法则会迫使公司变得更多产，更能创新。而且，事实上，美国在20世纪80年代和90年代生产率的提高很大一部分可能要归功于在信息通信技术上的大规模投资。