Dieser Beitrag entwickelt in zehn Thesen den unternehmensethischen Gedankengang, dass Unternehmen mit zahlreichen Aktivitäten unter der Bezeichnung "Corporate Social Responsibility" unfreiwillig genau jene Vorurteile bestätigen, die in der Öffentlichkeit oft zur Ablehnung der Marktwirtschaft...

Dieser Beitrag entwickelt in zehn Thesen den unternehmensethischen Gedankengang, dass Unternehmen mit zahlreichen Aktivitäten unter der Bezeichnung „Corporate Social Responsibility“ unfreiwillig genau jene Vorurteile bestätigen, die in der Öffentlichkeit oft zur Ablehnung der...

We revisit the long-standing question whether there is a relation between animal welfare and human ethics. Therefore, we elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct, and real setup: Subjects choose between intensive farming versus organic living conditions for a hen....

We elicit concern for animal welfare in an incentivized, direct and real setup that allows us to separate genuine interest in animal welfare from confounding factors like advertisement, replacement arguments or image concerns. Subjects choose between intensive farming and organic living...

What is ethics and how is it related to the legal system and to economics? Are there ethical values in Jewish Law, and could it be that we find in the writing of Hazal [the sages] an interest in job turnover? The purpose of this paper is to answer to those questions by focusing on a specific...

We analyze the effects of lower bounds on wages, e.g., minimum wages or liability limits, on job design within firms. In our model, two tasks contribute to non-veriable firm value and affect an imperfect performance measure. The tasks can be assigned to either one or two agents. In the absence...