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The discontents of Islamic economic morality

Kuran, T. - 1996

The main purpose of Islamic economics is not to improve economic performance. Notwithstanding the claim that Islamic … economics provides a superior alternative to the secular economic doctrines of the time, its real purpose is to help prevent … cultural protectionism, Islamic economics depends minimally on controlling the way Muslims behave in the marketplace. Its chief …

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Understanding Quality in Process Modelling: Towards a Holistic Perspective

Recker, Jan C. - 2007

Quality is one of the main topics in current conceptual modelling research, as is the field of business process modelling. Yet, widely acknowledged academic contributions towards an understanding or measurement of business process model quality are limited at best. In this paper I argue that the...

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Manifesto for a postcolonial international business and management studies: A provocation

Westwood, R. I.; Jack, G. - 2007

Abstract: Purpose – Submitted in the form of a manifesto, this article seeks to make a call to scholars in international management and business studies to embrace post-colonial theory and to allow it to provide an interrogation of the ontological, epistemological, methodological and...

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Das Dispositiv der Zukunftsfähigen Entwicklung

Timpf, Siegfried - 2000

Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...

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Animating the EPR-Experiment: Reasoning from Error in the Search for Bell Violations

Vasudevan, Anubav - 2005

When faced with Duhemian problems of underdetermination, scientific method suggests neither a circumvention of such difficulties via the uncritical acceptance of background assumptions, nor the employment of epistemically unsatisfying subjectivist models of rational retainment. Instead,...

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Valuing and Evaluating Evidence in Medicine

Borgerson, Kirstin - 2008

Medical decisions should be based on good evidence. But this does not mean that health care professionals should practice evidence-based medicine. This dissertation explores how these two positions come apart, why they come apart, and what we should do about it. I begin by answering the...

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Building a Non-Profit Organization: Project Venue

Green, Alanna K. - 2008

with a confused yet intrigued face. For many people my study of both Marketing and Philosophy is a strange dichotomy, for …

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Dishsoap for clean water: how the design of everyday objects can promote happiness

Matychak, Xanthe - 2007

This project began with the question: What keeps us from achieving sustainable happiness, happiness for ourselves and future generations?I have chosen to focus on the citizen/consumer conflict which occurs when our consumer choices are incongruous with our moral obligations to society. This...

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Enterprise hybrids and alternative growth dynamics

Levin, Kenneth M - 2004

dissertation brings into focus the ironic conclusion that capitalism's supposed "high-tech revolution" might actually derive from …

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An Empirical Examination of Service Dominant Logic: The Theory of the Network

Randall, Wesley Spencer - 2007

Marketing scholars question the ability of the 4Ps to explain higher order phenomena in modern marketing. Scholars contend that marketing's historical framework, based in product centric economic theory, constrains the 4Ps ability to form a foundation for a general theory of marketing. The focus...

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