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Author : Marianne Bertrand
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Agents with and Without Principles written by Marianne Bertrand and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Dancy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199270023
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Ethics Without Principles written by Jonathan Dancy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. The possibility of moral thought and judgement does not in any way depend on an adequate supply of principles. Dancy grounds this claim on a form of reasons-holism, holding that what is a reason in one case need not be any reason in another, and maintaining that moral reasons are no different in this respect from others. He puts forward a distinctive form of value-holism to go with the holism of reasons, and he gives a detailed discussion, much needed, of the currently popular topic of 'contributory' reasons. Opposing positions of all sorts are summarized and criticized. Ethics Without Principles is the definitive statement of particularist ethical theory, and will be required reading for all those working on moral philosophy and ethical theory.
Author : Roy H. May
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 149822525X
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Ethics without Principles written by Roy H. May and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics in the West too often equates morality with universal moral principles, thus imposing lifestyles and moral criteria that do not respect differences and local histories. Even Christianity proposes ethics that is based on eternal, absolute and universal truths or principles, independent of sociocultural and historical contexts. The problem is that these universal moral laws become a means of social control to exclude those who are different: non-Christian religions, nonwhite races, non-Western cultures, and poor and marginalized social classes everywhere. To these can be added minorities marginalized because of sexual orientation, physical handicaps, and women of all sectors and cultures. Another kind of ethics is urgent. For these reasons, Christians in Latin America and other parts are seeking innovative ways of envisioning ethics from their marginalized and discriminated social locations in order to find another possible ethics, an ethics that is not universal and not based on eternal truths or principles, but rather is contextual and historical and that takes into account real-life realities. Only an ethics that does this will be liberative. Important steps toward this other possible ethics have been taken by the theology of liberation by developing a contextual and intercultural morality.
Author : Gerald Fredrick Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Agents Without Principles? written by Gerald Fredrick Davis and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Dancy
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191533572
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Ethics Without Principles written by Jonathan Dancy and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defence of particularism in ethics, a view with which he has been associated for twenty years. He argues that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. The possibility of moral thought and judgement does not in any way depend on an adequate supply of principles. Dancy grounds this claim on a form of reasons-holism, holding that what is a reason in one case need not be any reason in another, and maintaining that moral reasons are no different in this respect from others. He puts forward a distinctive form of value-holism to go with the holism of reasons, and he gives a detailed discussion, much needed, of the currently popular topic of 'contributory' reasons. Opposing positions of all sorts are summarized and criticized. Ethics Without Principles is the definitive statement of particularist ethical theory, and will be required reading for all those working on moral philosophy and ethical theory.
Author : Martin Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190652276
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Ethics of Technology written by Martin Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous cars, drones, and electronic surveillance systems are examples of technologies that raise serious ethical issues. In this analytic investigation, Martin Peterson articulates and defends five moral principles for addressing ethical issues related to new and existing technologies: the cost-benefit principle, the precautionary principle, the sustainability principle, the autonomy principle, and the fairness principle. It is primarily the method developed by Peterson for articulating and analyzing the five principles that is novel. He argues that geometric concepts such as points, lines, and planes can be put to work for clarifying the structure and scope of these and other moral principles. This geometric account is based on the Aristotelian dictum that like cases should be treated alike, meaning that the degree of similarity between different cases can be represented as a distance in moral space. The more similar a pair of cases are from a moral point of view, the closer is their location in moral space. A case that lies closer in moral space to a paradigm case for some principle p than to any paradigm for any other principle should be analyzed by applying principle p. The book also presents empirical results from a series of experimental studies in which experts (philosophers) and laypeople (engineering students) have been asked to apply the geometric method to fifteen real-world cases. The empirical findings indicate that experts and laypeople do in fact apply geometrically construed moral principles in roughly, but not exactly, the manner advocates of the geometric method believe they ought to be applied.
Author : Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062359495
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Peter Principle written by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy—from the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation’s president—will inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence. Dr. Peter explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to do—why schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias. With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.
Author : David Kinny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642250432
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice written by David Kinny and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-26 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Principles and Practice in Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2011, held in Wollongong, Australia, in November 2011. The 39 papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They focus on practical aspects of multiagent systems and are organised in topical sections on coalitions and teamwork, learning, mechanisms and voting, modeling and simulation, negotiation and coalitions, optimization, sustainability, agent societies and frameworks, argumentation, and applications.
Author : Jennifer Allan
Publisher : Bg Books
ISBN 13 : 9780981672700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (727 download)
Download or read book Sell with Soul written by Jennifer Allan and published by Bg Books. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sell with Soul the author shares her rise from a nervous rookie agent to a successful real estate broker in Denver, Colorado. The book contains detailed instructions and checklists for many of the activities a new agent must master, such as building a contact database, learning the market, working with buyers, crafting marketing listings, and negotiating inspections. Allan also shares many stories from her own career that will help the new agent better understand her recommendations. Sell with Soul also speaks out against the status quo and asks agents to consider the needs of their clients before considering their own personal need for a paycheque, and counsels agents to welcome every learning experience, even when it does not result in a closed sale. Many new agents have told Allan how her book gave them hope that they could succeed without sacrificing their principles or changing their personalities.
Author : George Wilson Matheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Principles of the Law of Agency written by George Wilson Matheson and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Jo Hatch
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191588318
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Organizational Identity written by Mary Jo Hatch and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational Identity presents the classic works on organizational identity alongside more current thinking on the issues. Ranging from theoretical contributions to empirical studies, the readings in this volume address the key issues of organizational identity, and show how these issues have developed through contributions from such diverse fields of study as sociology, psychology, management studies and cultural studies. The readings examine questions such as how organizations understand who they are, why organizations develop a sense of identity and belonging, where the boundaries of identity lie and the implications of postmodern and critical theories' challenges to the concept of identity as deeply-rooted and authentic. Includes work by: Stuart Albert, Mats Alvesson, Blake E. Ashforth, Marilynn B. Brewer, George Cheney, Lars Thøger Christensen, C. H. Cooley, Kevin G. Corley, Barbara Czarniawska, Janet M. Dukerich, Jane E. Dutton, Kimberly D. Elsbach, Wendi Gardner, Linda E. Ginzela, Dennis A. Gioia, E. Goffman, Karen Golden-Biddle, Mary Jo Hatch, Roderick M. Kramer, Fred Mael, G. H. Mead, Michael G. Pratt, Anat Rafaeli, Hayagreeva Rao, Majken Schultz, Howard S. Schwartz, Robert I. Sutton, Henri Taijfel, John Turner, David A. Whetten, and Hugh Willmott Intended to provide easy access to this material for students of organizational identity, it will also be of interest more broadly to students of business, sociology, and psychology.
Author : Lester Everret Broyles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Man Without Principle written by Lester Everret Broyles and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curtis J. Milhaupt
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231127138
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Global Markets, Domestic Institutions written by Curtis J. Milhaupt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investors and managers now routinely face counterparts who operate within different legal systems and who do not share similar social priorities. This tension between global markets and domestic institutions fuels the debate on corporate-governance reform; it also frames the debate in this volume.
Author : Inigo Garcia-Rodriguez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429555962
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Financing Nonprofit Organizations written by Inigo Garcia-Rodriguez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The financial issues of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have increased their importance in recent years, especially after the last global economic downturn. In this way, NPOs have been threatened by a reduction of income, while their work and expenses have not decreased. In this book, the editors bring together several topics that the academic literature has previously addressed, connecting them to each other and evaluating how all these issues are interrelated. Financing Nonprofit Organizations analyses the state of art of all these financial topics and the consequences of the last economic crisis. It dives into the interrelations of these concepts to suggest lines of future research and to reflect on the future of the different sources of funding of the NPOs. It will be of interest to students, practitioners, and researchers interested in initiating and updating their knowledge in the growing field of the financial aspects of the NPOs.
Author : W. Mark Fruin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198288985
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (889 download)
Download or read book The Japanese Enterprise System written by W. Mark Fruin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume merges four streams of inquiry and interpretation in a study of the evolution and emergence of Japan's leading industrial firms during the twentieth century. First, it is a historical study of how the industrial institutions of modern Japan appeared and matured. Second, it is anorganization study of the basic forms of social and economic interaction in Japan. Third, it is a development study of how circumstances of rapid technical and economic change have shaped the Japanese business system. It is also a strategy study of how Japanese managers have responded to andshaped these circumstances. This fourfold synthesis offers a model of institutional development under conditions of late economic development and private initiative that falls somewhere between a capitalist development state and a free market economy. Business policy rather than industrial policy is accentuated, revealing aset of robust institutions and a dynamic to activate and interrelate them.
Author : Brian Cheffins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190640332
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Public Company Transformed written by Brian Cheffins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the public company has played a dominant role in the American economy. Since the middle of the 20th century, the nature of the public company has changed considerably. The transformation has been a fascinating one, marked by scandals, political controversy, wide swings in investor and public sentiment, mismanagement, entrepreneurial verve, noisy corporate "raiders" and various other larger-than-life personalities. Nevertheless, amidst a voluminous literature on corporations, a systematic historical analysis of the changes that have occurred is lacking. The Public Company Transformed correspondingly analyzes how the public company has been recast from the mid-20th century through to the present day, with particular emphasis on senior corporate executives and the constraints affecting the choices available to them. The chronological point of departure is the managerial capitalism era, which prevailed in large American corporations following World War II. The book explores managerial capitalism's rise, its 1950s and 1960s heyday, and its fall in the 1970s and 1980s. It describes the American public companies and executives that enjoyed prosperity during the 1990s, and the reversal of fortunes in the 2000s precipitated by corporate scandals and the financial crisis of 2008. The book also considers the regulation of public companies in detail, and discusses developments in shareholder activism, company boards, chief executives, and concerns about oligopoly. The volume concludes by offering conjectures on the future of the public corporation, and suggests that predictions of the demise of the public company have been exaggerated.
Author : Veronika Stefanie Rettenmeier
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3844103716
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (441 download)
Download or read book Stakeholder Support in Family Businesses written by Veronika Stefanie Rettenmeier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many family businesses fail during succession and sometimes they do because the successor is not granted the legitimacy by primary stakeholders of the company. But what does it take to be a legitimate successor in the eyes of these audiences? Are there different dimensions of legitimacy? And if so, do different stakeholder groups value the different dimensions of legitimacy differently? This book expands our knowledge of the origin and impact of a successor’s legitimacy in family owned businesses after succession. By analyzing a successor’s legitimacy on five dimensions, this work detects whether primary stakeholder groups’ decisions, to continuously provide their resources to family businesses after succession, depend on their perceived legitimacy of the successor and differ depending on the group the stakeholder belongs to. This book helps to understand why some successors are more successful than others in reassuring important resources to the company. Moreover, it helps successor candidates to identify which information they should signal toward a particular stakeholder group and how much weight should be attached to different claims and expectations. The findings of this book are based on an innovative paper-based policy-capturing analysis with family members, employees of family businesses and bankers. The participants of the experiment assessed more than 3,400 decisions to allocate further resources to the family business after succession depending on their legitimacy judgment.
