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Corporate social responsibility: A perspective from Weberian economic sociology

Boeddeling, Jann - 2012

Answering the call for a new theoretical approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this paper makes a suggestion from a Weberian perspective. It briefly appraises the existing research on CSR and develops key points of a new approach based on their criticism. Suggesting that CSR is a...

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Corporate social responsibility: A perspective from Weberian economic sociology

Boeddeling, Jann - Wirtschaftsfakultät, Private Universität Witten/Herdecke - 2012

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Corporate social responsibility: A perspective from Weberian economic sociology

Boeddeling, Jann - Wirtschaftsfakultät, Private Universität Witten/Herdecke - 2012

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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics. Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre-Industrial Europe, c.1650 - c.1800.

Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as exerting an important influence on the pre-industrial European economies. These writers were especially interested in the economic effects of the Reformation on the economic...

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Does Academia Still Call? Experiences of Academics in Germany and the United States

Berthoin Antal, Ariane; Rogge, Jan-Christoph - In: Minerva 58 (2020) 2, pp. 187-210

entering the profession in response to a calling is still relevant. This article draws together hitherto unconnected strands of … academics finds that almost all exhibit a calling orientation. However, their responses no longer correspond to the classical … calling orientation suggests that the internationalization of academic standards and procedures and the high level of …

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On the proper essence of Christian economic ethics

Kreuzhof, Rainer; Ockenfels, Wolfgang - In: Management Revue 21 (2010) 1, pp. 82-94

In recent times, the question about the proper essence of a Christian economic ethics has rarely been asked explicitly. However, the concept of a post-secular society, as presented by Jürgen Habermas, offers renewed access. The necessary foundation for this approach involves the relationship...

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Three principles of “political theology” in the Stefan George circle

Mikhailovsky, Alexander - National Research University Higher School of Economics - 2013

This paper is concerned with one of the most prominent examples of German intellectual history at the beginning of the 20th century, the George circle. The study identifies three principles which are crucial for the “political theology” of the George circle – the principle of covenant, the...

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Value and the market's (dis)order : market prices as a theological problem in patristic thought and the value theory of Peter of John Olivi

Simonsson, Ida - In: Journal of economics, theology and religion : JETR 2 (2022) 2, pp. 85-100

This article analyzes prices and value as constituting a theological problem in early and medieval Christian thought. First, it looks at the patristic critique of wealth and market prices and shows that such critique was rooted in a concern with a disordered world. Next, it moves on to medieval...

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Social Science Research Methods and Knowledge-Claims

Judge, Paramjit S - eSocialSciences - 2007

This paper explores three important but interrelated issues: The power of example; the fragment as evidence; and finally, the field experience and the possibility of generalisation. These issues are central in the current discourse of social science practice in which serious doubts are being raised...

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Negative Emotional Energy: A Theory of the “Dark-Side” of Interaction Ritual Chains

Boyns, David; Luery, Sarah - In: Social Sciences 4 (2015) 1, pp. 148-170

Randall Collins’ theory of interaction ritual chains is widely cited, but has been subject to little theoretical elaboration. One reason for the modest expansion of the theory is the underdevelopment of the concept of emotional energy. This paper examines emotional energy, related particularly...

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