Aux côtés de l'armée, les premières organisations ont été, pour beaucoup d'entre elles, de nature religieuse, ou en tous cas imprégnées de considérations religieuses. Les premières pratiques d'animation et de finalisation de l'action collective ont plus généralement été marquées...

Internet resources, extended media coverage and international organizations' reports recently witness the increasing interest of western banks in new models of finance, particularly Islamic finance and microfinance. This new trend is not only channeled through the frame of corporate social...

Research on the economic context of Jesus* teaching on wealth and exchange points to the need to take into account the nature and extent of market arrangements in first-century Roman Palestine. This context involves changing relations among reciprocity, redistribution, and market exchange....

The costs of transacting the myriad individual contracts needed to operate a complex productive enterprise are prohibitive. The firm provided the solution, by substituting hierarchy and command for perpetual negotiations. The legal system played its part in the development of firms by...

What is the advantage of faith in faith-based poverty-to-work programs? My qualitative, field research sought to determine the key distinctions between faith-based and secular programs by comparing three faith-saturated programs with three secular programs: one run by a reorganized governmental...

Despite a values emphasis said to distinguish Catholic business schools from secular institutions, a focus on moral development through principles of Catholic social teaching (CST) resembles the prominent role that ethics education plays at business schools accredited by AACSB International....

Though countries like the U.S.A., India and Nigeria have set their mottos based on high moral values like In God We Trust; Truth Alone Wins; Unity amp; Faith: Peace amp; Progress, it appears from experiences that today's governance (Man-Management) has been degraded to such an extent that moral...