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Levy, Brandon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Prior to the early part of the 19th century, China’s economy had long been superior to that of the West’s. The Chinese’s ability to utilize science and technology had been instrumental in leading their enormous population to economic prosperity and for a while, superiority. During the 18th...

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The endogenous nature of the measurement of social preferences

Smith, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Measures of preferences are primarily useful in that they are helpful in predicting behavior. We perform an experiment which demonstrates that the timing of the measurement of social preferences can affect such a measure. Researchers often measure social preferences by posing a series of...

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Financial instruments for human development

Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

Economics often provides the wrong incentives to those who control the assets, such as people in developing countries where most forests are located and who could potentially benefit most from conservation . There is increasing unease about this situation, and an emerging view is that standard...

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Ethical Management – Competitive Advantage Relationship

Urban, Violeta; Puiu, Tatiana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The paper aims at emphasizing the importance of business ethics in long term competitive advantage. Ethics is the basis … understand the importance of ethics as it is the basis of a civilized nation. Business ethics is concerned with the study of … profitable, and the relationship between ethics and competitiveness is evident. The future successful firm is a socializing one …

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African Development,Partnership and Rationality Challenge:An Exposition

NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Since 1950s, most African nations have gained independence from their colonial powers. Fortunately, independence has brought many changes to these nations and these include multi-party democratic government and western education systems. Unfortunately, the Africa’s economy is the least...

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Effects of corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility policies

Armstrong, J. Scott; Green, Kesten C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

irresponsibly. Codes of ethics that require fair treatment of stakeholders while pursuing long-term profit reduce the risk of …

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Ethics and justice. Reflections on The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen

Mejía Cubillos, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper carries out a brief analysis of Amartya Sen’s thinking on Justice, based on Part IV of his book The Idea of Justice. Besides of describing Sen’s thoughts on the subject, the paper aims to contextualize it in the evolution of Sen’s work and in the general discussion on Justice in...

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Ethics and internal audit: whistleblowing issues

Bunget, Ovidiu-Constantin; David-Sobolevschi, Maria-Iulia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

the law. „Ethics aims to the heart of the corporate’s reputation and in the end that is all you have if you hope to be … successful and prosperous in the business world (Harold Tinkler-director of ethics departament of Deloitte & Touche). Developing …

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Pluralism and deformalisation as mechanisms in the achievement of more equitable and just outcomes – the move from „Classical Formalism“ to deformalisation.

Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

By tracing the development and evolvement of certain legal theories over the centuries, as well as consequences emanating from such developments, this paper highlights how and why a shift from the model of „classical formalism“ towards more deformalised models has arisen. The paper also...

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Imam Al-Ghazali's views on economic activities

Diaw, Abdou - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

proof that ethics is an essential element in all spheres of life. This paper investigates Imam al-Ghazali's views on …

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