The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...

Undergraduate students in general and business students in particular are the future leaders of both private and public corporations. To anticipate their future behaviour and to develop ideas about undergraduate business education, an understanding of student attitudes towards business ethics is...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether belonging to a religious group that proscribes alcohol use moderated the relationship between moderate alcohol use and mortality. Data came from the Americans' Changing Lives study, based on a representative probability sample of adults 25 and...

This paper examines how Amish communities build and sustain enterprises that produce and/or sell goods to both ethnic and non-ethnic markets. Based on qualitative research including interviews with 161 Amish entrepreneurs in 23 communities in the USA, the authors develop a transformative model...

In community after community across the USA our churches have long served as iconic anchors to our village and town centres. While businesses would come and go, the population base would change and the physical character of our communities would evolve, our churches tended to remain as a...