Shareholder Value and the Common Good /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mimbi, Paul (Editor ), Lutz, David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Management > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Electronic books.
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.

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