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The cases of corruption reported by the media tend almost always to involve a private party (a citizen or a corporation) that pays, or promises to pay, money to a public party (a politician or a public official, for example) in order to obtain an advantage or avoid a disadvantage. Because of the...
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Facilitating payments are a very widespread form of corruption. They consist of small payments or gifts made to a person - a public official or an employee of a private company - to obtain a favor, such as expediting an administrative process, obtaining a permit, license or service, or avoiding...
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Irving Fisher fue uno de los más importantes economistas norteamericanos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Hizo aportaciones muy relevantes sobre la teoría monetaria, los ciclos económicos y las políticas estabilizadoras. En este artículo se resumen su vida, sus ideas y sus propuestas de...
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La ética no es un añadido para directivos concienciados en empresas con éxito, sino una necesidad, porque forma parte de la tarea misma de dirigir. Este artículo parte de qué es la ética, qué es una empresa y qué es dirigir una organización para mostrar por qué la ética es necesaria:...
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Although virtue ethics has gained a firm presence in the theory and practice of corporate management, humility is not ranked as one the chief virtues in the business world. This is probably due to an incomplete or incorrectly focused view of what it means to be a humble person, why a good...
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En las sociedades modernas, pocas instituciones tienen una influencia mayor que las empresas. Este trabajo es una amplia introducción al papel de las empresas como transformadoras de la sociedad, que empieza por su dimensión económica, pero que se refleja también en otras, de carácter...
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The contributions to this timely volume explore the social implications of labour market reforms, and assess the complex relationship between the economic and non-economic aspects of labour institutions. The authors ascertain that labour market systems have important social dimensions, including...
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The labour market is both a market and a "social institution". But what do we mean by that? In the first part of this article we analyse different interpretations of the labour market's "social" dimension, starting with the versions postulated by economists and ending with those that invoke...
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