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The Intellectual's New Clothes: Review Of "Public Intellectuals: A Study Of Decline," Richard Posner, And "One World: The Ethics Of Globalization," Peter Singer, Julian Friedland Jan 2003

The Intellectual's New Clothes: Review Of "Public Intellectuals: A Study Of Decline," Richard Posner, And "One World: The Ethics Of Globalization," Peter Singer, Julian Friedland

Julian Friedland

This review provides a critique of the public intellectual phenomenon via a joint review of two books by public intellectuals, namely Richard Posner and Peter Singer. Please note, the article starts on p. 195 of the attached document.


Entrepreneurial Activity In Chile - Gem Report 2003, Alfredo Enrione, Alvaro Pezoa, Gerardo Martí, Nicolás Besa, Alfredo Enrione Jan 2003

Entrepreneurial Activity In Chile - Gem Report 2003, Alfredo Enrione, Alvaro Pezoa, Gerardo Martí, Nicolás Besa, Alfredo Enrione

Alfredo Enrione

No abstract provided.


Moral Imagination And The Future Of Sweatshops, Laura Hartman, Denis Arnold Jan 2003

Moral Imagination And The Future Of Sweatshops, Laura Hartman, Denis Arnold

Laura Hartman

Disputes concerning global labor practices are at the core of contemporary debates regarding globalization. In this essay we explore two multinational corporations’ global labor programs in an effort to illustrate the positive impact of moral imagination at the individual, organizational, and systems levels on the “sweatshop” problem. The intent is to identify the factors that have allowed particular multinational corporations (MNCs) to respect at least some of the basic rights of workers and thereby exhibit positive deviancy from historical norms in the apparel and footwear manufacturing industry. The labor initiatives discussed in this paper were trailblazing at their inception. However, …


Exploring Consumer Attitudes Towards Mobile Music Services, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Adam Vrechopoulos Jan 2003

Exploring Consumer Attitudes Towards Mobile Music Services, Pavlos A. Vlachos, Adam Vrechopoulos

Pavlos A Vlachos

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Ready To Change? Social Networks And Sustainable Organizations, Scott C. Hammond, Susan R. Madsen Jan 2003

Ready To Change? Social Networks And Sustainable Organizations, Scott C. Hammond, Susan R. Madsen

Susan R. Madsen

Sustained work life is a property of an organization and not a single individual or profession. Traditional organizational theory has focused change models for individuals or organizations, not on the organizational continuum. Change is a property of the organizational continuum. Our project is to redefining change theory for the organizational continuum and direct theory towards a more sustainable view of change.


Working Across Cultures, John Hooker Dec 2002

Working Across Cultures, John Hooker

John Hooker

No abstract provided.


Stakeholder Theory And Organizational Ethics, Robert Phillips Dec 2002

Stakeholder Theory And Organizational Ethics, Robert Phillips

Robert Phillips

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Stakeholder Legitimacy, Robert Phillips Dec 2002

Stakeholder Legitimacy, Robert Phillips

Robert Phillips

This paper is a preliminary attempt to better understand the concept of legitimacy in stakeholder theory. The normative component of stakeholder theory plays a central role in the concept of legitimacy, therefore, though the elaboration of legitimacy contained herein applies generally to all “normative cores” this paper relies on Phillips’s principle of stakeholder fairness and therefore begins with a brief description of this work. This is followed by a discussion of the importance of legitimacy to stakeholder theory as well as the general ambiguity of the term. A distinction is then drawn between normative and derivative legitimacy. Reference to this …