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The Desocialising of Economic Theory
Jackson, William A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) 9, pp. 809-825
boundaries between academic disciplines, which drove economics towards individualism and other social sciences towards structural … economy. Some reforms that would loosen the restrictions so as to promote a resocialised economics are suggested. …
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Dualism, Duality and the Complexity of Economic Institutions
Jackson, William A. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 26 (1999) 4, pp. 545-558
Dualism - the division of an object of study into separate, paired elements - is widespread in economic and social theorising: key examples are the divisions between agency and structure, the individual and society, mind and body, values and facts, and knowledge and practice. In recent years,...
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A Biblical basis for localization
Beed, Clive; Beed, Cara - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) August, pp. 802-817
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a Biblical basis for localization as against globalization. This paper argues that the normative direction of Biblical thought is toward the localization of socio-economic activity. A case study is made for the developing world today relevant...
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Developing social capital for facilitating knowledge management practices
Monavvarian, Abbas; Asgari, Nasser; Akhavan, Peyman; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 826-844
Purpose – This study seeks to explore the effect of social capital (SC) on knowledge management (KM) practices. The main problem under investigation is to assess the importance of SC within an organization and to ascertain how it can ensure that knowledge activities would continue to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742448
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Developing social capital for facilitating knowledge management practices
Monavvarian, Abbas; Asgari, Nasser; Akhavan, Peyman; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) July, pp. 826-844
Purpose – This study seeks to explore the effect of social capital (SC) on knowledge management (KM) practices. The main problem under investigation is to assess the importance of SC within an organization and to ascertain how it can ensure that knowledge activities would continue to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686095
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Developing social capital for facilitating knowledge management practices
Monavvarian, Abbas; Asgari, Nasser; Akhavan, Peyman; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 40 (2013) 9, pp. 826-844
Purpose – This study seeks to explore the effect of social capital (SC) on knowledge management (KM) practices. The main problem under investigation is to assess the importance of SC within an organization and to ascertain how it can ensure that knowledge activities would continue to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014807486
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The economic function in the Hindu worldview: its perennial social relevance
Chakraborty, S.K.; Chakraborty, D. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) October, pp. 714-734
economics and allied matters. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is a conceptual one that highlights a few crucial … economics in the context of Hinduism. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081257
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Factors that influence choice of major: why some students never consider economics
Calkins, Lindsay Noble; Welki, Andrew - In: International Journal of Social Economics 33 (2006) August, pp. 547-564
Purpose – In the fall of 1996, Walstad suggested that the economics profession needed to obtain the students …/methodology/approach – To recruit majors and to address Walstad's concern, economics and non-economics majors were surveyed to determine which … factors they consider important when choosing a major and to better understand why some students never consider economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081258
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Economics and religion: Globalization as the cause of secularization as viewed by Adam Smith
Alvey, James E. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) March, pp. 249-267
Purpose – In the Western world the voices calling for a secular society have grown ever louder over the last three centuries. This paper seeks to return to one of the founders of modernity for guidance. Adam Smith advocated globalization on economic and moral grounds....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005081264
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Person: an economic agent for the electronic age
O'Boyle, Edward J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 34 (2007) July, pp. 472-484
versus individual and individualism. Second, it traces the origins of personalist economics to Aristotle, Aquinas, and Smith …, shows why personalist economics departs from mainstream economics, and how it is linked to Weber and Walras principally … through Schumpeter. Findings – This paper provides a schematic showing that personalist economics originates with Aristotle …
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