Since the late 1970s, financial institutions (banks, investment companies, insurance companies) have grown up in many countries in the Moslem world with the intention of conducting their business in accordance with Islamic, or Shariah, law. Above all else, this means business involving no...

In many books on Islamic economics and banking published during the 1960s and early 1970s, Islamic banks are interpreted as financial institutions which base their whole "loan" business on the principle of Profit and Loss Sharing (PLS) with the entrepreneurial partners. The authors of these...

In this paper we discuss the ethical challenges of Multinational Corporations operating in various cultures with different social expectations and ethical values. We analyse the various responses of political institutions, religious organizations, and business practice to this challenge. Next we...

In what follows we try to develop a concise line of reasoning concerning a conceptual clarification of the relationship between corporate ethics and management. Our proposal will draw from philosophical considerations developed by philosophers of the methodical constructivism of the so-called...