The Italian <Emphasis Type="Italic">Economia Aziendale</Emphasis> and Catholic Social Teaching: How to Apply the Common Good Principle at the Managerial Level |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Ericka?CostaEmail author Tommaso?Ramus |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Computer and Management Sciences, University of Trento, Via Inama, 5, 38100 Trento, Italy;(2) University of Bergamo, Via dei Caniana 2, 24127 Bergamo, Italy |
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Abstract: | The ongoing global economic and financial crisis has exposed the risks of considering market and business organizations only
as instruments for creating economic wealth while paying little heed to their role in ethics and values. Catholic Social Teaching
(CST) could provide a useful contribution in rethinking the role of values in business organizations and markets because CST
puts forward an anthropological view that involves thinking of the marketplace as a community of persons with the aim of participating
in the Common Good (CG) of society. In the light of the CST tradition, and in particular Caritas in Veritate, this article investigates the thinking of some of the historical scholars of the Italian Economia Aziendale (EA), by focusing on the concept of azienda, in order to reinterpret in a more humanistic way the role of business organizations in society. By linking CST and EA, the dichotomy between for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and the stereotype of the so-called business amorality
that has, for a long time, driven business managers can be transcended. The conclusions imply a forward-looking application
of the ethical concepts embedded in the Italian science of EA. |
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