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"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Drawing on the philosophy of existentialism, this...
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Modern liberalism asserts the transcendental, autonomous self's 'natural rights' against others' moralistic and political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of 'social justice'. Timothy Roth argues that the liberal...
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The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy aims to demonstrate exactly how these two important areas have always been linked, and to illustrate the key areas of overlap. The contributors are well-known and distinguished authors from a variety of disciplines, who have been invited both to...
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A companion volume to the International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption published in 2006, the specially commissioned papers in Volume Two present some of the best policy-oriented research in the field. They stress the institutional roots of corruption and include new research on topics...
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What is the role of international business in this dilemma? How and why do international corporations maximize value beyond core strategy and partners through corporate responsibility? This informative and accessible resource expands the readers' understanding of the ways in which profit...
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Management Education and Humanities argues that management teachers and researchers seem to be increasingly …pt. 1. Managerial profession at the start of the new century -- pt. 2. Management education : is a humanist reframing … possible? -- pt. 3. Bringing humanities into the heart of management -- pt. 4. Rethinking humanism …
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Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking. Although commitments to leadership, ethics, and...
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This seminal work advances beyond neoclassical economics to provide an integrated overview of economic decision making …, and the management of bounded rationality and its evolutionary consequences. Clem Tisdell successfully combines recent … managerial phenomena. The results are applied to different levels of decision-making, including decisions by individuals, taking …
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better decisions in organizations / Jaana Woiceshyn -- 2. Adaptive decision making processes in crisis management / Bjorn T … integrated approach to decision making -- 1. Intuiting and reasoning: Facilitating subconscious and conscious processing for …. Bakken and Thorvald Haerem -- 3. Nursing students' decision making in clinical simulation / Jean E. Pretz, Amanda L. Price …
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1. Introduction : markets, competition, and higher education -- 2. Sophism, academia, and Greek economics -- 3. Adam Smith and sophism : reaction to the endowment model -- 4. Virtue and early academia in the US -- 5. Academia and the rise of capitalism in the US -- 6. Corporate capitalism and...
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