Today many recognize the importance of ethics in management, and particularly in leadership, although some others remain unconvinced. This post presents some insights from Chester I. Barnard (1886-1961), one of the pioneers of management thinking. He wrote The Functions of the Executive (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1938), a book which for decades was widely read […]
Economic Freedom Indexes: Are They Etically Significant?
It has just released the 2013 annual report elaborated by Economic Freedom of the World produced by the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank, in cooperation with the Economic Freedom Network, a group of independent research and educational institutes spread over nearly 90 nations and territories worldwide. It gives 2011 data from 151 countries. According to this index the average global economic freedom score […]
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Corporate social responsibility: what is it and on what basis?
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept widely used, but somewhat misleading, both in conception and in its contents …
Ethical values in marketing: an examplary video
Advertising contains, in one form or another, values (or pseudo-values) in its messages. I remember, for example, one TV ad in which two people fought over possession of a bottle of a soft drink – ah yes, how desirable! Fortunately not all of the ‘values’ that appear are of this nature, such as a video […]
