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Skip Worden 《Journal of Business Ethics》2003,47(2):147-164
This paper examines the role that religious ethics, complemented by a nationalist principle, can play in a sustained exercise of strategic leadership, hypothesizing a positive association with a societal reputation for credibility or integrity. The key to this relation is the constraining effect on strategic or financial pressures, even if there is coherence in the long-term. J. N. Tata, the founder of Tata Industries who lived in British India, was a Parsee priest and an advocate for Indian national self-reliance and ultimately independence. Even as Tata's two ethics dovetailed with his business interests in the long-term, they conflicted sufficiently with the business calculus of some of his immediate and intermediate strategic interests such that he could enjoy a sterling societal reputation in India, his credibility transcending that of a businessman. 相似文献
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Skip Worden 《Journal of Business Ethics》2009,84(2):209-219
I argue that Aristotle’s approach to the proper type of acquisition, use-value, want, and accumulation/storage of wealth is
oriented less to excluding commercial activity, such as that of Aristotle's Athens, than to forestalling misordered concupiscence
– the taking of an inherently limited good for the unlimited, or highest, good. That is, his moral aversion to taking a means
for an end lies behind his rendering of the sort of wealth that is natural. By stressing the limited nature of natural wealth,
Aristotle distinguishes such wealth qua limited from an artificial unlimited desire for profit in order to drive home his point that wealth ought not be taken as
an objective good (i.e., good in itself). 相似文献
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Excessive household debt contributed to the worst recession in decades. Insights about borrowing and spending behavior can inform economic recovery forecasts, policy decisions, and financial education. This study identifies life cycle and credit attitude as key determinants of who uses debt. Younger households are more likely to borrow for consumption, as are those who believe that it is all right to borrow to purchase luxury goods or cover living expenses. Furthermore, households that condone borrowing for these purposes have a higher consumer debt burden. Debt capacity (or creditworthiness) and financial discipline are also significant factors in determining household debt use. 相似文献
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Skip Worden 《Journal of Business Ethics》2003,46(1):31-44
In the context of a crisis of confidence in executive leadership in corporate America, this paper examines the role of integrity as a mediator within strategic leadership and its impact on credibility in reputational capital. A tension can occur within strategic leadership between the elements of strategic planning and leadership vision. This tension can destroy the credibility of reputational capital unless strategic leadership is managed effectively. Integrity can be used as the glue providing for credible leadership vision amid a strategic perspective oriented to competitive pressures, thereby enabling strategic leadership to contribute to a sustainable competitive advantage. A strategic leadership audit is presented as a tool by which strategic leadership and reputational capital can be managed. 相似文献
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The somewhat surprising strength in consumer spending in recent years has focused renewed attention on the much-debated wealth
effect, the notion that when individuals feel wealthier, they consume more. This study utilizes survey data to examine the
wealth effect within the context of the behavioral life-cycle model of savings. The results indicate that the likelihood of
households spending more when their assets increase in value decreases with the portion of assets held in home equity. This
unexpected finding is due to homeowners responding to the perceived wealth gain from increased home values by cashing out
their equity. The likelihood increases with the portion of assets held in stock outside of retirement accounts, but is not
significantly related to the portion of assets held in stock overall. Moreover, households that have a full-time income earner,
are homeowners, have more education, have a younger household head, or expect economic growth, are more likely to report a
wealth effect. Households that utilize savings “rules of thumb” are less likely to report a wealth effect. These results can
be used to improve the wealth effect specification in consumer demand models and assist firms to target consumer markets. 相似文献
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Skip Worden 《Journal of Business Ethics》2009,84(3):427-456
This article approaches the field of business ethics from a Nietzschean vantage point, which means explaining the weakness
of the field by means of providing an etiological account of the values esteemed by the decadent business ethicists therein.
I argue that such business ethicists have wandered from their immanent philosophical ground to act as scientists, businesspersons, and preaching-moralists as a way of evading their human self-contradictions. In actuality,
this fleeing exacerbates them into a sickness of self-idolatry and self-loathing. I bring in Nietzsche’s approach to the value of truth and his ascetic priest figure to
get to the origin of this problem. Moreover, I attend throughout to delimiting the field of business ethics as that branch
of ethics that can be taught in business schools. Indeed, the article itself is a movement in this direction, being inherently
and intentionally philosophical. 相似文献
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This article analyzes the probable effects of recent deregulation of consumer credit markets and tax reform on household credit-use decisions. The results of the analysis suggest that deregulation of rates of charge for consumer credit contracts accounts for a substantial portion of the increase in consumer credit outstanding relative to household income since 1982. The effect would not originate from the extention of credit in newly deregulated markets to households that had not been able to get credit before (widening of credit use). Rather, it would come from the provision of greater amounts of credit to borrowers in general (deepening of credit use). With regard to tax reform, the probability of debt use is significantly higher for those households most likely to itemize deductions for federal income tax purposes. Holding the level of interest rates constant, tax reform that removes the deductibility of consumer interest is not expected to affect the amount of credit used relative to income but is expected to have a significant effect on the type of debt used by such households. They will likely be early adopters of home equity lines of credit. Their shift from consumer to mortage credit is expected to have a long-term negative effect on the credit quality of consumer credit portfolios.This work was partially supported by the Credit Research Center. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. 相似文献
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