It has often been said that the financial crisis which has been hitting the world economy since mid-2007 is an ethical crisis. By studying the behaviors of the agents who made the decisions that led to the crisis, we do find evidence of many unethical mistakes. But bad conduct was also present...

The English version of this paper can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343325' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343325.Aunque la ética de las virtudes ha Ganado ya un puesto sólido en la teoría y en la práctica de la gestión de empresas, la humildad no está cosiderada como una de las...

La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2342238" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2342238.Although virtue ethics has gained a firm presence in the theory and practice of corporate management, humility is not ranked as one of the chief virtues in the...

The concept of consistency, applied to organizations, provides the common thread for a model of decision making that considerably enriches the models traditionally used in organization theory by adding a humanistic and ethical dimension. Extending the theory of human motivation to encompass a...

The cases of corruption reported by the media tend almost always to involve a private party (a citizen or a corporation) that pays, or promises to pay, money to a public party (a politician or a public official, for example) in order to obtain an advantage or avoid a disadvantage. Because of the...

Facilitating payments are a very widespread form of corruption. They consist of small payments or gifts made to a person - a public official or an employee of a private company - to obtain a favor, such as expediting an administrative process, obtaining a permit, license or service, or avoiding...

The funding of political parties raises interesting economic, political, social and ethical problems. This paper seeks to address these problems with the intention of contributing to the general debate, but, above all, of understanding the issue from the company's viewpoint, since companies are...

In January 2005, The Economist published a survey on corporate social responsibility (CSR), joining a long-running debate on the meaning and need for CSR in a market economy. The British weekly's thesis, widely accepted among economists, was first stated years ago by Milton Friedman (1962): a...

The literature on humility has grown considerably in recent decades, within the fields of psychology and ethics, as have its applications in organizational management, leadership and the functioning of teams. This paper is intended as a further contribution to this literature. Its starting point...

English Abstract: Social responsibility (SR) in the field of healthcare can learn a lot from the evolution of the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The “responsibility” component was originally an ethical concept that, when looking at the past, addresses the consequences of...