Download or read book Activist Business Ethics written by International Business Programs and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The truth can wait, for it lives a long life” (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860) The philosopher Schopenhauer believed in the eventual triumph of truth, despite the disappointments engendered by his indifferent contemporaries. Two centuries later, we live in a time of accelerated changes, and we do not have the long life to wait for the truth. Activist business ethics, business ethics with a more activist militant approach, is needed in order to remedy the wrongdoing committed to the stakeholders and minority shareholders. This will be achieved by cooperation between ethical businessmen and businesswomen, activist academics and associations of stakeholders and minority shareholders. We should treat others as we would want them to treat us, not through interest, but by conviction. Yet this principle is not the guideline of many companies in the modern business world, although most of religions and philosophers have preconized it in the last 3,000 years. How could we convince or compel modern business to apply this principle and is it essential to the success of economy? In order to answer these questions this book examines the evolution of activist business ethics in business, democracies, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and other religions, as well as in philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis. The book examines international aspects, the personification of stakeholders, the predominance of values and ethics for CEOs and the inefficient safeguards of the stakeholders’ interests.

Download or read book Business Ethics written by Jacques Cory and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-03-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume describes how the traditional safeguards of the rights of shareholders, namely the law, the SEC, boards of directors, independent directors, auditors, analysts, underwriters and the press, are inefficient in many cases toward minority shareholders.".

Download or read book Corporate Takeovers Through Public Markets General and National Reports XIV Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law Athens August 1994 written by Phaedon Kozyris and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new volume contains the National Reports and the General Report on the topic of Corporate Takeovers through the Public Markets , as presented at the XIVth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law held in Athens, Greece, between 31 July and 6 August 1994. The main aim of the report is to study public market transactions, with particular emphasis on policy. It presents an up-to-date compilation and examination of the key issues relating to corporate takeovers worldwide and provides invaluable information and policy analysis for the scholar as well as for the legislator and the legal practitioner. The detailed national reports cover the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela and Yugoslavia.

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Download or read book Financing Political Parties and Election Campaigns written by Ingrid van Biezen and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On cover & title page: Integrated project "Making democratic institutions work"

Download or read book Board Directors and Corporate Social Responsibility written by S. Boubaker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces readers to recent developments in the fields of board of directors and corporate social responsibility. It also provides new insights and perspectives on corporate governance practices in different countries.

Download or read book Oppression and Related Remedies written by Markus Koehnen and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oppression and Related Remedies" is the definitive one stop shop for shareholder litigation. It avoids case summaries and provides a coherent, principled analysis of the factors that lead courts to one line of cases or the other by highlighting conflicting case law and analysing it. This comprehensive guide also provides detailed analysis of burgeoning related areas such as directors' liability and takeover bid litigation.

Download or read book Men and Women of the Corporation written by Rosabeth Moss Kanter and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark work on corporate power, especially as it relates to women, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the distinguished Harvard management thinker and consultant, shows how the careers and self-images of the managers, professionals, and executives, and also those of the secretaries, wives of managers, and women looking for a way up, are determined by the distribution of power and powerlessness within the corporation. This new edition of her award-winning book has a major new afterward in which the author reviews and analyzes how attitudes and practices within the corporate power structure have changed in the 1990s.

Download or read book Contemporary Law 1994 written by Canadian Association of Comparative Law and published by Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University = Institut de droit comparé, McGill University. This book was released on 1995 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Generation to Generation written by Kelin E. Gersick and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generation to Generation will help managers understand the special dynamics & challenges that family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. It explains how to handle succession, & the role of non-family professionals.

Download or read book Max Weber and Karl Marx written by Karl Lowith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Strategies for Longevity in Family Firms written by G. Corbetta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strategic concepts and tools illustrated in this book provide a framework for devising and implementing strategies favouring longevity of family-controlled business entities. The authors illustrate their arguments with examples drawn from their direct knowledge of representative Italian and European family firms.

Download or read book The New Spirit of Capitalism written by Luc Boltanski and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism , a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.

Download or read book From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers written by Robert Castel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary industrial society. Throughout, the author identifies two constants bearing directly on the question of who is entitled to relief and who can be excluded: the degree of embeddedness in any given community and the ability to work. Along this dual axis the author locates virtually the entire history of social welfare in early-modern and contemporary Europe.This work is a systematic defense of the meaningfulness of the category of "the social," written in the tradition of Foucault, Durkheim, and Marx. Castel imaginatively builds on Durkheim's insight into the essentially social basis of work and welfare. Castel populates his sociological framework with vivid characterizations of the transient lives of the "disaffiliated": those colorful itinerants whose very existence proved such a threat to the social fabric of early-modern Europe. Not surprisingly, he discovers that the cruel and punitive measures often directed against these marginal figures are deeply implicated in the techniques and institutions of power and social control.The author also treats the flipside of the problem of social assistance: namely, matters of work and wage-labor. Castel brilliantly reveals how the seemingly objective line of demarcation between able-bodied beggars those who are capable of work but who chose not to do so and those who are truly disabled becomes stretched in modernity to make room for the category of the "working poor." It is the novel crisis posed by those masses of population who are unable to maintain themselves by their labor alone that most deeply challenges modern societies and forges recognizably modern policies of social assistance.The author's gloss on the social question also offers us valuable perspectives on contempo

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Download or read book Small Business Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development written by Graham Beaver and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an introduction to the establishment, development and managerial issues confronting the smaller enterprise, this text is particularly concerned with the kinds of action and behaviour that seem to characterise successful new business ventures.