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Corporate social responsibility management in Uganda: Lessons, challenges, and policy implications
Katamba, David; Kazooba, Charles Tushabomwe; Mpisi, … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) May, pp. 375-390
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate how business enterprises in Uganda manage their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and projects. Design/methodology/approach – The investigations focused on a limited number of management facets. Using a cross-sectional...
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Rand’s Egoism and Marx’s Collectivism: An Ethical Perspective
Riha, Tomas J.F. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 21 (1994) 5/6, pp. 66-78
Identifies certain commonalities in the bases of the moral philosophies of Rand (individualist/capitalist/egoist) and Marx (collectivist/socialist/altruist), such as a man’s natural rights and materialism. Examines their philosophies from an ethical viewpoint, looking at the origins and...
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Institutions interact with economic actors: plea for a general institutional economics
Held, Martin J.; Nutzinger, Hans G. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) 3, pp. 236-254
motivation, internalization of norms, habit formation, etc., but these characteristics are typically treated in a half …
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Corporate social responsibility management in Uganda
Katamba, David; Tushabomwe Kazooba, Charles; Babiiha … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 39 (2012) 6, pp. 375-390
Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate how business enterprises in Uganda manage their corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and projects. Design/methodology/approach – The investigations focused on a limited number of management facets. Using a cross‐sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014805733
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The Ethical Numeraire
Alam Choudhury, Masudul - In: International Journal of Social Economics 19 (1992) 1, pp. 60-72
goods that imparts an ethical motivation to the activities of consumption, production and distribution. Shows that the …
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Utility interdependence when personality types interact
Freeman, Katherine B. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 2, pp. 4-18
. Psychological motivation variables for giving and receiving will be analysed which define an individual′s personality type in terms …
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A communitarian perspective on government failure
Wallis, Joe; Dollery, Brian - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 4, pp. 33-48
explains the function of hope in human motivation and intimates how leaders may influence the hopes of their followers and why …
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Self‐interest and sympathy in economic behaviour
Hausken, Kjell - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 7, pp. 4-24
Analyses self‐interest and sympathy in game‐theoretic terms. Evaluates the relative weight of self‐interest and sympathy in the theories of Hobbes, Hume and Adam Smith in an economic framework. Demonstrates through game‐theoretic tools that sympathy as an actuating motive in human nature...
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A case study on the misuse of hawala banking
Bunt, Henk van de - In: International Journal of Social Economics 35 (2008) September, pp. 691-702
literature emphasises the importance of trust between client and banker, as well as between hawala bankers themselves. Trust is … of hawala banking by drug dealers) put the significance of trust into perspective: the importance of ethnicity and … personal trust should not be exaggerated. When the stakes are high, a common social background and shared ethnicity between …
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Transparency: a two-way mirror?
Bessire, Dominique - In: International Journal of Social Economics 32 (2005) May, pp. 424-438
creativity and trust, instead of opportunism. Originality/value – Through the deconstruction of prevailing discourses on …
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