An economic man, i.e., the leading role in economic ethics, has been deeply investigated in our study considering a human being’s economic behavior and the hypotheses for an economic man in traditional economics based on M. Weber’s and S. N. Bulgakov’s Christian economic man. Among various...

Se centra el artículo que se recoge a continuación en un estudio de contenido sociológico y a la vez filosófico del derecho de Georges Gurvitch. La sociología jurídica de Gurvitch es distinta de la de Max Weber (1864-1920) y de la de Jean Carbonnier (1908-2003). Gurvitch incurre en...

Our research focuses on the SNCF company. With 160,000 workers, SNCF is a bureaucratic structure (Weber, 1971; Mintzberg, 1982; Alter, 1995, 1996) facing the challenge of openness to competition. We analyse the participative innovation routine that has deeply changed since the 1990s, whereas a routine...

Se recoge en la presente recensión una enumeración valorativa del homenaje que le fue tributado a Alfredo Rodríguez García en un breve acto académico y, sobre todo, al que una serie de profesores, de su Universidad, junto a otros extranjeros, han querido dedicarle, con diversas...

A lo largo de su vida Max Weber estableció una correlación entre modernidad y espíritu del capitalismo y entre organización del poder político y racionalidad jurídica en el Estado moderno. Defendió una forma de Estado nacionalista de signo imperialista, que no se enmarcaba en el...

Answering the call for a new theoretical approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this paper makes a suggestion from a Weberian perspective. It briefly appraises the existing research on CSR and develops key points of a new approach based on their criticism. Suggesting that CSR is a...

Abstract The purpose of the paper is to examine the methodology of Max Weber and outline its relation to the economic science. The fi rst part analyses Weber’s article “Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy” (1904). The second part examines the paper titled “Meaning of Ethical...

For the Christian tradition there seems to be a critical attitude towards economy, it¡¯s perspective and it¡¯s logic. But it can be shown that not only the language of Luther and Calvin is dominated economically, but even the language of the Bible itself. Purpose of that is to bring the...

At the beginning of the text we took into account all relevant biblical sources that until the 16th century played role in considering the compatibility of interest with the biblical message. We also stated important authors that influenced the medieval considerations on this issue. Although the...