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The quest for moral leaders : essays on leadership ethics
Ciulla, Joanne B. (contributor);  … - 2005
The quest for moral leaders is both a personal quest that takes place in the hearts and minds of leaders and a pursuit by individuals, groups, organizations, communities and societies for leaders who are both ethical and effective. The contributors to this volume, all top scholars in leadership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851711
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The moral capital of leaders : why virtue matters
Sison, Alejo G. - 2003
Sison studies a wide range of recent management cases from the viewpoint of moral capital: the sorry state of US airport screeners before 9-11, the Ford Explorer rollovers and Firestone tire failures, the battle for the 'HP way' between Carly Fiorina and the heirs of the founding families, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851751
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The new Russian business leaders
Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R. (contributor) - 2004
Based on extensive interviews with the pioneers of Russian business and the authors' own experiences, this perceptive new book attempts to decipher the enigma of Russia's new generation of business leaders. The authors present six in-depth case studies focusing on companies of vastly differing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852015
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Corporate governance and ethics : an Aristotelian perspective
Sison, Alejo G. - 2008
Corporate Governance and Ethics is an illuminating and practical reading of Aristotle's Politics for today's corporate directors. With a deft synthesis of ethics, economics and politics, Alejo Sison elevates the discussion of corporate governance out of the realm of abstract rules and structures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852031
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The quest for a general theory of leadership
Goethals, George R. (contributor);  … - 2006
theory of leadership. Led by James MacGregor Burns, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the classic Leadership (1978), they tell …A quest for a grand theory of leadership / J. Thomas Wren -- Leadership and the human condition / Michael Harvey -- The … theory and metatheory of leadership : the important but contested nature of theory / Mark C. Walker -- Power / Michael Harvey …
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Advancing public goods
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Cournot Centre for Economic Studies <Paris, France)> / … - 2006
The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850891
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Rethinking economics as social theory
Wagner, Richard E. - 2022
materialistic general theory of rational action into an idealistic theory of social organization and individual action. Adding new … insightful analytical methods such as complexity theory, graph theory and computational modelling to the original insights of the … and the important social questions. Rethinking Economics as Social Theory moves away from the traditional review of …
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Rethinking public choice
Wagner, Richard E. - 2022
"Innovative in its approach, Rethinking Public Choice reviews the concept of public choice since the 1950s post war period and the application of economics to political practices and institutions, as well as its evolution in recent years attracting contributions from political science and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462756
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A modern guide to the economics of crime
Buonanno, Paolo (ed.); Vanin, Paolo (ed.);  … - 2022
relationship between the two fields. Policy makers will also benefit from the application of interdisciplinary theory to empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462765
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A modern guide to Austrian economics
Bylund, Per L. (ed.) - 2022
both the school and the overall theory have evolved over recent decades. Leading scholars offer their insights into …, underdeveloped aspects and extensions of theory, and current applications of interest. Spanning theories of entrepreneurship to the … theory of the business cycle, from methodology to sociology, and from cryptocurrencies to culture, this clear and concise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462766