Are fair trade labels good business ? Ethics and coffee buying intentions
Are fair trade labels good business ? Ethics and coffee buying intentions ~ On the basis of a sample of 808 Belgian citizens and using conjoint analysis, the importance of a ‘fairtrade’ label for the coffee buying decision is studied, as well as the willingness to pay for such a label.Furthermore, the size of the [...]
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Islamic Business Ethics
Islamic Business Ethics ~ You are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoiningwhat is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah.(Qur’an 3:110) Every day, individuals face ethical issues at work, and rarely know howto deal with them. A recent review of articles published in the Wall StreetJournal during only one week in [...]
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Sustainability Balanced Scorecard and Business Ethics
Sustainability Balanced Scorecard and Business Ethics ~ How can stakeholder demands be integrated into the core management systems of companies andmanaged in an effective and efficient way? How can be ensured that, coming from the paradigm ofsustainable development, economic, ecological and social matters are implemented and managed bycompanies in an equal way?… Ten years after [...]
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Business Ethics: Four Spheres of Executive Responsibility
Business Ethics: Four Spheres of Executive Responsibility ~ managers and organizations, Chester Barnard wrote: *^*Itseems to me inevitable that the struggle to maintain coopera^tion among men should as surely destroy some men morally asbattle destroys some physically.”‘ This is a grim observation. It flies in the face of our widespread celebration of business leadership, entrepreneurial [...]
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The Effects of State and Local Public Services on Economic Development
The Effects of State and Local Public Services on Economic Development ~ concerning the relationship between public services, or at least government spending, and economic development in the jurisdiction providing those services, as measured by changes in population,employment, income, or the number of firms. Much of this work,particularly the initial studies, arose as a reaction [...]
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Lambert Review of Business University Collaboration
Lambert Review of Business University Collaboration ~ Further to your letter of 5 February inviting contributions to your review of business university collaboration, I am pleased to respond on behalf ofSheffield Hallam University. The University interacts with businesses of all shapes and sizes locally,regionally, nationally and internationally. These interactions are diverse innature, in response to [...]
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Has the Business Cycle Changed and Why?
Has the Business Cycle Changed and Why? ~ The U.S. economy has entered a period of moderated volatility, or quiescence. The long expansion of the 1990s, the mild 2001 recession, and thecurrent moderate recovery reflect a trend over the past two decades to wards moderation of the business cycle and, more generally, reduced volatility in [...]
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merging Market Business Groups, Foreign Intermediaries,and Corporate Governance
Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Intermediaries,and Corporate Governance ~ Much has been written about the tendency toward insider control in transitional economies (Aoki and Kim 1995). Indeed, this phenomenon posesa serious challenge for the governance of enterprises in which the usualinstitutions for external monitoring are missing or underdeveloped… Shleifer and Vishny (I 986) point out [...]
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How Much Does International Trade Affect Business Cycle Synchronization?
How Much Does International Trade Affect Business Cycle Synchronization? ~ In a recent article, Jeffrey Frankel and Andrew Rose (1998) examine the hypothesis thatgreater trade flows between two countries cause greater synchronicity between theirbusiness cycles. The increase in business cycle synchronicity may be seen asrationalizing a common monetary policy and, so, a shared currency. Arguing [...]
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Demande Side Management for residential and commercial end-users
Demande Side Management for residential and commercial end-users ~ This paper focus on the demand side management in the residential and commercial sec-tors, for small end-users. Demand side management is providing technical, organisationnaland behavioural solutions to cut or decrease electricity consumption and demand. In thisarticle, a special attention is given to a proposal of major [...]
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The Value of Handheld Computers in Construction
The Value of Handheld Computers in Construction ~ ABSTRACT: Construction is an information intensive industry in which the accuracy and timeliness of information isparamount. Construction projects can experience extensive delays or rework due to information that is unavailable,inaccurate or simply outdated. Handheld computers (HHC) have the potential to solve some of these problems byproviding field [...]
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High-Tech Industry Productivity and Hedoic Price Indices
High-Tech Industry Productivity and Hedoic Price Indices ~ Andrew Wyckoff (1995), in a provocative paper, showed that measured growth ofmanufacturing output across OECD countries is very sensitive to cross country differences in themeasurement of computer prices and output. Specifically, countries that use hedonic price indices forcomputer equipment record higher output growth rates for their high [...]
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