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Entscheidungsfreiheit als Grundlage wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Forschung
Küpper, Hans-Ulrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Entscheidungstheorie durch Ethik und Neurobiologie in Frage gestellt wird. Nach dem in ihm entwickelten Verständnis von Unternehmensethik … by ethics and neurobiology. It argues for an understanding of busi-ness ethics which sees the economic agents’ freedom of … developments in behav-ioural economics, ethics and neurobiology, it argues for the extension of this concept by con-sciously or …
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Changing Behavior by Improving Codes of Ethics
Lere, John C.; Gaumnitz, Bruce R. - In: American Journal of Business 22 (2007) 2, pp. 7-18
This paper describes ways to improve the effectiveness of a code of ethics where the goal is to affect the alternative …
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Sensemaking of managers' ethical work orientations
Reis, Christina - In: Social Responsibility Journal 6 (2010) March, pp. 143-155
business ethics, the paper examines how some managers were more proactive than others in identifying ethical content in …Purpose – Regarding managers' sensemaking of ethical content, this paper aims to help understand how managers come to … believe what is important for business ethics and to improve understanding about their ethical work orientations. Design …
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Behavioral agency theory: new foundations for theorizing about executive compensation
Pepper, Alexander; Gore, Julie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This article describes new micro-foundations for theorizing about executive compensation, drawing on the behavioral … executive compensation, an enhanced theory of agent behavior, and an improved platform for making recommendations about the … design of executive compensation plans. …
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Who Gets the Lion’s Share? Top Management Group Pay Disparities and Powerful CEOs.
McClelland, Patrick; Brodtkorb, Tor - Department of Economics, School of Business Management
important role in the distribution of compensation within top management groups. …
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cost–benefit analysis: philosophical issues
Hansson, Sven Ove - Palgrave Macmillan
Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) gives rise to a whole range of philosophical issues. The most discussed among these is the status of economic values that are assigned to assets conceived as incommensurable with money, such as a human life or the continued existence of an animal species. CBA...
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Trust As a Means of Improving Corporate Governance and Efficiency
Chami, Ralph; Fullenkamp, Connel - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
Agency problems within the firm are a significant hindrance to efficiency. We propose trust between coworkers as a superior alternative to the standard tools used to mitigate agency problems: increased monitoring and incentive-based pay. We show how trust induces employees to work harder,...
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Does ‘Best Practice’ in Setting Executive Pay in the UK Encourage ‘Good’ Behaviour?
Bender, Ruth; Moir, Lance - In: Journal of Business Ethics 67 (2006) 1, pp. 75-91
We examine how UK listed companies set executive pay, reviewing the implications of following best practice in corporate governance and examining how this can conflict with what shareholders and other stakeholders might perceive as good behaviour. We do this by considering current governance...
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The rights and wrongs of intergenerational externalities
Spash, Clive L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
Neither environmental economics nor environmental philosophy have adequately examined the moral implications of imposing environmental degradation and ecosystem instability upon our descendants. A neglected aspect of these problems is the supposed extent of the burden that the current generation...
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Strategies for the maintenance of natural capital
Spash, Clive L.; Clayton, Anthony M. H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
capital: Motivations and methods. In Space, Place and Environmental Ethics, eds. A. Light & J.M. Smith, 143-173. Lanham …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112868