Managers, businesspeople, politicians and, of course, academics and researchers should learn from the causes of the crisis and well-known scandals, and reflect on the proper role and ethical implications of finance, banking and accounting. It would therefore be apt to analyze criticism and to present recommendations and alternatives in order to integrate ethics and efficiency, as […]
Capitalism in Question: Congress of the Academy of Management
This past August I had the opportunity to attend the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, probably the most important of its kind in the world, with more than 8,000 participants distributed across multiple divisions. The overall theme for this year lends the title of this post: Capitalism in Question, certainly an expressive title, […]
Solidarity facing poverty created by the crisis: what is the Church doing?
The report of the Spanish Economic and Social Council (CES) 2011, presented a few days ago, stated that Spain is among the countries registering the highest increases in population at risk of poverty and social exclusion, having gone from 23.4% in 2009 to 25.5% in 2010 (latest data published). In presenting the report the president of […]
Business and Social Ethics: a new blog is born
To communicate with a group that is far from small, or with an audience in cyberspace was a question I posed myself: the answer I arrived at can be seen here, with this unveiling of a new blog, but I have also resolved that this will not be at the cost of neglecting the first […]