Purpose – To see how educational philosophies that underlie lecture and case methods of teaching are related to how faculty perform their teaching, research, and service. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on the premise that foundational philosophies, worldviews or paradigms...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a paradigmatic look at corporate governance. Design/methodology/approach – This paper starts with the premise that any worldview can be associated with one of the four basic paradigms: functionalist, interpretive, radical humanist, and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to see how educational philosophies that underlie lecture and case methods of teaching are related to setting course goals, objectives, and contents. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on the premise that foundational philosophies,...

Purpose – Any adequate analysis of the nature of mathematics and its role in sciences necessarily requires fundamental understanding of the world views underlying the views expressed with respect to the nature and role of mathematics. Aims to discuss four general views with respect to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that knowledge in general, and knowledge of markets in particular, is ultimately a product of the researcher's paradigmatic approach to a multifaceted phenomenon and therefore it is as much an ethical, moral, social, ideological, and political...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an explanation for the way the reality in the world of finance comes to be formed, among other things, by the theory of finance. It is based on the idea that financial behavior is not independent of the theory of finance. The paper, therefore, examines...