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Timeless Values In Turbulent Times (Bentonville, Ar), C. William Pollard
Timeless Values In Turbulent Times (Bentonville, Ar), C. William Pollard
C. William Pollard Papers
Delivered at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, AR, this speech focuses on the importance of cultivating values and developing character in corporate institutions. Pollard pays special attention to the role of leaders in the formation of businesses as moral communities.
A Prolegomenon To The Relation Between Accounting, Language And Ethics, Cecil E. Arrington
A Prolegomenon To The Relation Between Accounting, Language And Ethics, Cecil E. Arrington
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This essay outlines the preliminary structure of a moral ontology of accounting understood as discourse. To speak of an ontology of accounting is to speak of the most general features of accounting, those features of its existence that are present irrespective of variations in observed “accountings,” of ways in which accounting manifests itself in lived experience. To speak of a moral ontology is to construe those general features as products of human choices and actions which follow from axiological (value-based) commitments to pursue the good and just life, however that life might be understood, and indeed understood differently by different …