Spanish Abstract: Durante mucho tiempo, el capitalismo ha tenido una mala reputación, y no solamente en los países con tendencia comunista. El discurso público en continentes tales como Latinoamérica y África ha sido muy crítico respecto al modelo de negocio anglo sajón. Sin embargo, lo...

Utilitarianism arguably provides the philosophical justification for suboptimal management theory. We provide a historical perspective on the development of management theory from its utilitarian basis, and highlight the missing conceptual link between management theory and human dignity. We...

While the idea of freedom lies at the heart of our economic system, academic research has neglected to connect theories of the firm to freedom theory. To fill this void, the authors delineate two archetypes of freedom – quantitative and qualitative – and outline the consequences of the...

When development economics emerged as an independent field in the post-1945 years, the answer to the question what the makings of development are was rather simple: Development equals GNP growth. On following current discussions in politics and business but also in much of academia, one suspects...

In this paper I take a look at conceptualizing corporate responsibilities and introduce normative stakeholder dialogue as a means to assume responsibility before sketching out the main tenets of an emancipated corporation, a corporation that has freed itself from the normative heightening of...