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The discontents of Islamic economic morality

Kuran, T. - 1996

The main purpose of Islamic economics is not to improve economic performance. Notwithstanding the claim that Islamic … economics provides a superior alternative to the secular economic doctrines of the time, its real purpose is to help prevent … cultural protectionism, Islamic economics depends minimally on controlling the way Muslims behave in the marketplace. Its chief …

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Manifesto for a postcolonial international business and management studies: A provocation

Westwood, R. I.; Jack, G. - 2007

Abstract: Purpose – Submitted in the form of a manifesto, this article seeks to make a call to scholars in international management and business studies to embrace post-colonial theory and to allow it to provide an interrogation of the ontological, epistemological, methodological and...

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Das Dispositiv der Zukunftsfähigen Entwicklung

Timpf, Siegfried - 2000

Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...

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Understanding Quality in Process Modelling: Towards a Holistic Perspective

Recker, Jan C. - 2007

Quality is one of the main topics in current conceptual modelling research, as is the field of business process modelling. Yet, widely acknowledged academic contributions towards an understanding or measurement of business process model quality are limited at best. In this paper I argue that the...

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Animating the EPR-Experiment: Reasoning from Error in the Search for Bell Violations

Vasudevan, Anubav - 2005

When faced with Duhemian problems of underdetermination, scientific method suggests neither a circumvention of such difficulties via the uncritical acceptance of background assumptions, nor the employment of epistemically unsatisfying subjectivist models of rational retainment. Instead,...

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Uncomputability: the Problem of Induction Internalized

Kelly, Kevin T. - 2003

I argue that uncomputable formal problems are intuitively, mathematically, and methodologically analogous to empirical problems in which Hume’s problem of induction arises. In particular, 11 I show that a version of Ockham’s razor (a preference for simple answers) is advantageous in both...

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Narrators and comparators: the architecture of agentive self-awareness

Bayne, Tim; Pacherie, Elisabeth - 2007

This paper contrasts two approaches to agentive self-awareness: a high-level, narrative-based account, and a low-level comparator-based account. We argue that an agent's narrative self-conception has a role to play in explaining their agentive judgments, but that agentive experiences are...

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MORAL CHOICE (UTILITARIANISM, CONTRACTARIANISM, FUTURE GENERATIONS, RIGHTS)

KEYES, EVELYN; KEYES, EVELYN - 1985

In this dissertation I attempt to devise a satisfactory general principle for moral decision-making. I assume such a principle would give complete and consistent directives; it would give intuitively sound directives; and its fundamental aim would be the maximization of the good, or utility....

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THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY AS RESPECT FOR PERSONS

KEGERREIS, MICHAEL WAYNE; KEGERREIS, MICHAEL WAYNE - 1984

The right to privacy is presented as a right to a state of non-intrusion in the control an individual has over personal information, and the means of access to such information. This account of the right helps to show that the Warren and Brandeis account of the right to privacy in torts is best...

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Vindicating the fads : a study of the contribution of some late 20th century business management methods to the growth of intellectual capital in the organisation

Fogell, Marion - 2007

Quality management, business process engineering and other business management change tools of the late 20th century are often denigrated in knowledge management literature as fads, with no permanent value. Other authors credit these tools with being predecessors of knowledge management.The...

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