Editorial introduction

This special issue presents the results of a three-day conference that was held between 27 and 29 October 2005 at the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy at the University of Leicester. The papers in this issue approach the work of Emmanuel Levinas and respond to him in different ways. Some introduce his work, some apply it in various contexts, some propose to extend it, while others question it. The issue also includes, in English for the first time, a translation of 'Sociality and Money', a text by Levinas that directly addresses the prospects for ethics in what he calls a 'civilisation of money'. It is hoped that this text by Levinas will provide those unfamiliar with his writing something of an introduction to his work, and for readers familiar with Levinas it will provide access to a new text that concerns itself here explicitly with money and economic life. The editorial introduction seeks to provide some context for Levinas's work and its reception in philosophy and business ethics before overviewing the papers in the issue.     

Editorial introduction: Derrida,business, ethics

This special issue contains papers first presented at a conference that was held 14–16 May 2008 at the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy at the University of Leicester. Each of the papers takes up ideas from the works of Jacques Derrida and seeks to apply these to questions of business, ethics and business ethics. The papers take up quite different parts of Derrida's works, from his work on the animal, narrative and story, the violence of codification and the limits of responsibility to the aporias of decision. As a whole, the papers offer a dangerous gift to business ethics, of which the stakes are here laid bare – if business ethics is to shrug off its philosophical immaturity and take seriously the work of major European thinkers such as Derrida, then many of its assumed categories, concepts and practices will be shown to shudder and tremble, as it becomes possible to demonstrate how they, one by one, unhinge themselves.     

Editors' introduction

Small Business Economics -     

脱硫废水膜处理技术简介

根据目前湿法烟气脱硫工程废水处理系统的设计情况,简述了湿法烟气脱硫废水的特性及处理原理,并提出了废水处理的合理化建议。     

Conceptual Knowledge Markup Language: An introduction

Conceptual Knowledge Markup Language (CKML) is an application of XML. Earlier versions of CKML followed rather exclusively the philosophy of Conceptual Knowledge Processing (CKP), a principled approach to knowledge representation and data analysis that “advocates methods and instruments of conceptual knowledge processing which support people in their rational thinking, judgment and acting and promote critical discussion”. The new version of CKML continues to follow this approach, but also incorporates various principles, insights and techniques from Information Flow (IF), the logical design of distributed systems. Among other things, this allows diverse communities of discourse to compare their own information structures, as coded in logical theories, with that of other communities that share a common generic ontology. CKML incorporates the CKP ideas of concept lattice and formal context, along with the IF ideas of classification (= formal context), infomorphism, theory, interpretation and local logic. Ontology Markup Language (OML), a subset of CKML that is a self-sufficient markup language in its own right, follows the principles and ideas of Conceptual Graphs (CG). OML is used for structuring the specifications and axiomatics of metadata into ontologies. OML incorporates the CG ideas of concept, conceptual relation, conceptual graph, conceptual context, participants and ontology. The link from OML to CKML is the process of conceptual scaling, which is the interpretive transformation of ontologically structured knowledge to conceptual structured knowledge. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

中国国际商品中心

中国国际贸易促进委员会和上海市浦东新区人民政府共同建立的中国国际商品中心座落于上海外高桥保税区内，面积约12万平方米，是集保税展示，交易和贸易服务为一体的贸易平台。中国国际商品中心以国际商品的保税展示，贸易服务为主要功能，可以使国外企业降低进口商品展示和推广成本。更好地以展促销；     

浅谈现代物流

现代物流作为新兴的产业在世界范围蓬勃发展。二十世纪八十年代以来,美、日、欧等发达国家的现代物流产业的迅速发展对社会和经济的发展贡献日益增大。因而,国际上已普遍把现代物流称为“第三利润源泉”和现代经济的“加速器”。在我国,加快现代物流业的发展也已成为我国国民经济建设的一个重大课题。我国入世、西部大发展以及实现“十五”计划,都大力推动了我国物流业的发展,现代物流产业将