This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combinesmultiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and theirbehavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-thejobethical...

Das Unternehmen stellte in Frankreich über einen langen Zeitraum hinweg keinoriginäres soziologisches Objekt dar; es wurde vielmehr von den Soziologenignoriert. In einer ersten Phase wurde das Unternehmen als ein durch Technologien,Klassengegensätze und ökonomische Zwänge bestimmter Ort...

Den Rating-Agenturen lieferten die zurückliegenden Geschäftsjahre amaugenscheinlichsten seit den Kapitalmarkt-Verwirrungen im Zusammenhang mit denEreignissen des 11. September 2001 reichlich Gesprächsstoff und auchRechtfertigungsargumente. Adressaten der professionellen Rating-Agenturen sind...

In the past few decades, so-called model organisms have become a cornerstone of research in the biomedical sciences. For the scientists, the model organism is both a practice ground for developing laboratory techniques, and a source of insights into common or even universal biological...

When the German translation of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published in 1860, it intensified a conflict that German theologians had been fighting since the early 19th century. Arguments against the secular relativising or even thorough dismissal of the scientific, philosophical and...

There has been a remarkable growth in evolutionary economics since the 1980s. But despitethis outward success there has been inner disagreement on fundamental issues including thebuilding blocks of evolutionary theory and the very meaning of ‘evolution’ itself. This essayprovides a...