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This paper analyses whether freedom of decision as a crucial precondition of normative deci-sion theory is questioned … by ethics and neurobiology. It argues for an understanding of busi-ness ethics which sees the economic agents’ freedom of … plain determination on the one extreme and complete autonomy on the other. It supports the proposition in decision theory …
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In this paper, which is concerned with philosophical methodology as it might affect social science and ethics, the … that ability to shift might affect various research agendas in the social sciences and ethics. Finally, we raise the … effort to resolve the tension between the dimensions may signal future research agendas in ethics and political economy …
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The study examines the research methodology of more than 200 empirical investigations of ethics in personal selling and … sales management between 1980 and 2010. The review discusses the sources and authorship of the sales ethics research. To … better understand the drivers of empirical sales ethics research, the foundations used in business, marketing, and sales …
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This paper provides a comprehensive theoretical model of the political decision making process. Therein two ideologically different political parties compete for power. Their primary instrument in this competition are programmatic concessions in favor of voters and interest groups. As any...
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organizational culture. So tackling business ethics and social responsibility is an issue today, not only theoretically but also in … effectiveness and ethics initiatives in the corporate responsibility shock. …
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This paper studies the advantages that a coalition of agents obtains by forming a voting bloc to pool their votes and cast them all together. We identify the necessary and sufficient conditions for an agent to benefit from the formation of the voting bloc, both if the agent is a member of the...
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Does there exist a voting rule to be, for example, inserted into the constitution of a newly constructed apartment building, which is likely to attract the greatest number of consumers? We analyze this and other questions within a framework in which co-owners resolve future debates by voting. We...
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This paper considers the problem of voting about the quantity of a public good. An experiment has been run in order to test the extent of the strategic bias that arises in the individual vote when the social choice rule is to select the mean of the quantities voted for; conflicting theoretical...
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Committees are often made up of representatives of different-sized groups of individuals, and make decisions by means of a voting rule which specifies what vote configurations can pass a decision. This raises the question of the choice of the optimal voting rule, given the different sizes of the...
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