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Shareholder value and the common good : essays on the objectives and purposes of business management /
The twenty-five essays in this interdisciplinary, international volume address the question of the objective or purpose of business management from a wide range of theoretical perspectives.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nairobi, Kenya :
LawAfrica Publishing (K) Ltd.,
Ã2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Keynote address: the relationship between ethics and business management
- Altruism and human flourishing: the high and lw dimensions of 'self-interest' in business enterprise
- Beyond agency theory: the nature of the firm from a humanistic perspective
- A comparative analysis of the principle of competition in business management and the principle of love in Christian ethics in Africa
- The purpose of business management inthe light of Catholic social teaching
- The challenge of business: going beyond wealth maximisation and profit maximisation
- Human perfection as the proper aim of business management
- The objective of maximum profit, or the wishfulthinking of a 'hyper-monetised' economy
- The German way: the free-enterprise system; daily struggle between capitalism and social responsibility
- Which business models for sustainable development?
- Beyond 'welfarism': towards a philosophical grounding of economic theory
- The objective of business management: a Biblical perspective
- Should entrepreneurs advance the profit-maximisation objective?
- Ethics in business economics: self-interest, inequality of income, and social justice
- Governing the business enterprise: the wealth-creating organ of, in, and for society
- Profit maximisation and business social responsibility objectives in business management
- Capitalism and social investment in Africa:contradictory commitment to development
- The misapplication of the concept of agency to financial management theory
- Founding an ethical Kenya: the role of the business sector
- The search for metaphysical, rpistemological, moralprinciples to serve as a basis of business management
- The objective of business management and the necessity of ethical business managers
- Presumptive taxation and tax compliance in Uganda: incorporating ethical aspects
- Management ethics and the reality of negative attitudes in Nigeria's public employment sector
- Work ethic, locus of control, and task performance
- Personal morality and business management: empirical and philosophical perspectives
- Contributors.