This work is an entry for the second edition of Sage's Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. It presents the capitalist system and its varieties briefly, then discusses their social and ethical dimensions and the main features of the debate about these dimensions: foundations, the role of...

This work is an entry for the second edition of Sage's Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society. It is a brief description of the theory and practice of monetary policy, one of the most important policies, along with fiscal policy, for achieving macroeconomic stability. The entry discusses...

What does it mean that companies must "create value", or "be managed" for "all their stakeholders"? In this paper we aim to show what creating economic value and appropriating economic value mean, in order to demonstrate that so long as we confine ourselves to an exclusively economic concept of...

This article serves as an introduction to the collection of papers in this monographic issue on "What the European tradition can teach about Corporate Social Responsibility" and presents the project's rationale and main hypotheses. We maintain that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is an...

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have proven to be excellent instruments for promoting a wide range of causes. But they need to adhere to strict ethical principles, which usually are embodied in voluntary codes and standards. This paper analyzes one such standard, the Ethics. NGO management...

The ever more frequent and forceful criticisms of management sciences suggest that we need a new model. In fact, the number of proposed alternatives has multiplied, with some suggesting that the range of economic points of departure be extended, while others turn to other sciences (sociology,...

Spanish Abstract: Irving Fisher fue uno de los más importantes economistas norteamericanos de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Hizo aportaciones muy relevantes sobre la teoría monetaria, los ciclos económicos y las políticas estabilizadoras. En este artículo se resumen su vida, sus ideas y...

The central question posed in this paper will be how to organize board composition in order to ensure responsible corporate governance both from a CSR and a good governance perspective. Adopting a stakeholder approach to corporate governance, we analyze the arguments given by different...

The literature on spirituality at work and in organizations is full of useful contributions and suggestions, but difficulties arise in applying it to firms due to the lack of a theoretical conceptual framework that integrates the different approaches. This paper seeks to provide such a...

Spanish Abstract: En las sociedades modernas, pocas instituciones tienen una influencia mayor que las empresas. Este trabajo es una amplia introducción al papel de las empresas como transformadoras de la sociedad, que empieza por su dimensión económica, pero que se refleja también en otras,...