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Ifa, the deity of wisdom, and importance of work among the Yoruba people

Olurode, Lai - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 1 (2007) 2, pp. 135-141

world view and the key components of the Yoruba peoples' religion is provided. In particular, these elements are discussed … that specifically examines economic forces within the broader context of religion for the Yoruba people. …

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The institutional limitations of Catholic progressivism: an economic approach

Gill, Anthony J. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 9/10/11, pp. 135-148

From the vantage point of the 1970s and early 1980s, the Latin American Catholic Church appeared to be on a trajectory of increasing progressivism, typically manifesting itself as a “preferential option for the poor”. Recently, however, the Catholic hierarchy has experienced a...

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Hinduism and microcredit

Ashta, Arvind; Hannam, Mark - In: Journal of Management Development 33 (2014) 8/9, pp. 891-904

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the microfinance industry practices can benefit from the culture and spiritual traditions of a country. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the Bhagavad Gita and the codes of Manu and Kautilya to describe the background of Hindu...

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Moral cover for capitalism

Gerde, Virginia W.; Goldsby, Michael G.; Shepard, Jon M. - In: Journal of Management History 13 (2007) 1, pp. 7-20

Purpose – In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism , Max Weber chronicled how seventeenth‐century religious tenets expounded by John Calvin inadvertently laid the ideological groundwork for the flourishing of eighteenth‐century capitalism. In this early work on the rise of...

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Accounting and accountability in the Iona Community

Jacobs, Kerry; Walker, Stephen P. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 17 (2004) 3, pp. 361-381

This paper explores the issue of accounting and accountability in the spirituality and practices of an ecumenical Christian group – the Iona Community. Fundamental to the existence and operation of the Iona Community is their Rule, which requires all full‐members to account to each other for...

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Accountability and control in a cat's cradle

Berry, Anthony J. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18 (2005) 2, pp. 255-297

Purpose – To examine control and accountability in an expressive organisation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper was based upon a longitudinal case study of events in the Church of England from 1994 to 2001 and was based on documents, debates in the governing body, conversations and...

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The panacea of culture: the changing fortunes and careers of China’s Dongba priests

Xie, Zheng; Altman, Yochanan - In: Cross Cultural Management 22 (2015) 4, pp. 649-660

paper is to recount the fortunes of the age-old religion of the Naxi people and their farmer-priests, the dongba . Design … governments, the Naxi elite. At the core is the transformation, in Chinese terms, from a superstitious religion to culture … industry: tourism, with an archaic religion in a remote corner of China, and the transformation of the latter as result. …

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Cadbury and pig DNA: when issue management intersects with religion

Jaques, Tony - In: Corporate Communications: An International Journal 20 (2015) 4, pp. 468-482

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolving role of religion in issue management and introduces a …

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Toyota falls foul of caste system

Pollitt, David - In: Human Resource Management International Digest 22 (2014) 7, pp. 5-7

Purpose – The paper aims to analyze the cross-cultural reasons underlying the extreme industrial unrest experienced during the first seven years of Toyota’s operations in India. Design/methodology/approach – It draws on information obtained from 30 personal interviews, field notes,...

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Managing God’s estate: current environmental policies and the Biblical tradition

Szenberg, Michael - In: International Journal of Social Economics 24 (1997) 6, pp. 628-642

Examines the Biblical positions concerning humankind’s relationship to nature. The Biblical ecological system is a hierarchical system with human beings at the pinnical of nature and the animal and vegetative worlds below to serve humans. The same hierarchical structure prevails in human...

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