Claus Dierksmeier - Böcker

Transforming Capitalism addresses the challenges to shareholder capitalism. It explores: fair play in the market place;challenges on systemic, organizational and individual levels; the need to refocus our economic system around community and cooperation; the current challenges and transform capitalism.

Transforming Capitalism addresses the challenges to shareholder capitalism. It explores: fair play in the market place;challenges on systemic, organizational and individual levels; the need to refocus our economic system around community and cooperation; the current challenges and transform capitalism.

In the light of growing political and religious fundamentalism, this open access book defends the idea of freedom as paramount for the attempt to find common ethical ground in the age of globality.

This book demonstrates how principles of a Humanistic Management paradigm are practiced in a variety of industries and regions by businesses of different ownership structures and sizes.What unites these businesses is their commitment to the three stepped approach of Humanistic Management, which is grounded in unconditional respect for the dignity of life, the integration of ethics in management decisions, and active engagement with stakeholders.These businesses are not labeled social enterprises, but operate within the mainstream of competitive markets. However, they do have a deep sense of responsibility towards the communities in which they operate and act accordingly, knowing that sustaining business success over time depends on a value proposition to society at large. The cases featured in this book serve to clarify that businesses can thrive not despite but because they are upholding principles of Humanistic Management. It will be valuable reading for academics working in the field of business ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

This book demonstrates how principles of a Humanistic Management paradigm are practiced in a variety of industries and regions by businesses of different ownership structures and sizes.What unites these businesses is their commitment to the three stepped approach of Humanistic Management, which is grounded in unconditional respect for the dignity of life, the integration of ethics in management decisions, and active engagement with stakeholders.These businesses are not labeled social enterprises, but operate within the mainstream of competitive markets. However, they do have a deep sense of responsibility towards the communities in which they operate and act accordingly, knowing that sustaining business success over time depends on a value proposition to society at large. The cases featured in this book serve to clarify that businesses can thrive not despite but because they are upholding principles of Humanistic Management. It will be valuable reading for academics working in the field of business ethics, sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie die Prinzipien des Humanistischen Management-Paradigmas in einer Vielzahl von Branchen und Regionen von Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Eigentümerstruktur und Größe praktiziert werden.Was diese Unternehmen eint, ist ihr Engagement für den dreistufigen Ansatz des Humanistischen Managements, der auf der bedingungslosen Achtung der Würde des Lebens, der Integration von Ethik in Managemententscheidungen und der aktiven Einbeziehung von Interessengruppen beruht.Diese Unternehmen werden nicht als Sozialunternehmen bezeichnet, sondern operieren im Rahmen der üblichen Wettbewerbsmärkte. Sie haben jedoch ein ausgeprägtes Verantwortungsbewusstsein gegenüber den Gemeinschaften, in denen sie tätig sind, und handeln entsprechend, da sie wissen, dass ein nachhaltiger Unternehmenserfolg auf lange Sicht von einem Wertangebot für die Gesellschaft insgesamt abhängt.Die in diesem Buch vorgestellten Fälle verdeutlichen, dass Unternehmen nicht trotz, sondern wegen der Einhaltung der Grundsätze des Humanistischen Managements erfolgreich sein können. Es ist eine wertvolle Lektüre für Akademiker, die im Bereich der Wirtschaftsethik, der Nachhaltigkeit und der sozialen Verantwortung von Unternehmen arbeiten.

The study examines the noumenal, the spiritual essence of religion. Starting from Kant's practical philosophy, it shows that this noumenon, which is seen as the indirect symbolic way of understanding the world, is familiar to everybody who strives to lead a good and honest life, including those with an atheistic orientation. The author accesses the normative critical concept of religion in three stages. To start with, central aporias of Kant's practical philosophy (doctrine of postulates, theory of the highest good) are reconstructed and cancelled using the synthetic practical proposition a priori. In the second stage, these aporias are related to further topics of Kant's practical philosophy in order to elucidate the importance of religion for practical consciousness. In the third section, the concept of religion gained systematically is further developed to a critical normative concept of phenomenal religion. With this concretisation the noumenal religion becomes a generalized concrete concept when compared with a mere rational religion.

Asserting that ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and management education, Reframing Economic Ethics highlights the need for a paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management, and argues that the failures of markets and managers in recent years were paved by a misguided management education.

Asserting that ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and management education, Reframing Economic Ethics highlights the need for a paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management, and argues that the failures of markets and managers in recent years were paved by a misguided management education.