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11Amazing Grace in John Newton: Slave-ship Captain, Hymnwriter, and AbolitionistMercer University Press. 2001.In "Amazing Grace," the best-loved of all hymns, John Newton's allusions to the drama of his life tell the story of a youth who was a virtual slave in Sierra Leone before ironically becoming a slave trader himself. Liverpool, his home port, was the center of the most colossal, lucrative, and inhumane slave trade the world has ever known. A gradual spiritual awakening transformed Newton into an ardent evangelist and anti-slavery activist. Influenced by Methodists George Whitefield and John Wesley…Read more
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2320How Is Weakness of the Will Possible?In Joel Feinberg (ed.), Moral concepts, Oxford University Press. 1969.D. In doing x an agent acts incontinently if and only if: 1) the agent does x intentionally; 2) the agent believes there is an alternative action y open to him; and 3) the agent judges that, all things considered, it would be better to do y than to do x
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5Anatomy Ontologies for Bioinformatics: Principles and Practice (edited book)Springer. 2007.16 CARO — The Common Anatomy Reference Ontology Melissa A. Haendel, Fabian Neuhaus, David Osumi-Sutherland, Paula M. Mabee, Jos ́e L.V. Mejino Jr ., Chris J. Mungall, and Barry Smith∗ Summary. The Common Anatomy Reference ...
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40How Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics Are Perceived in ChinaProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 21 23-31. 2010.The paper explores how the concepts of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics are perceived by business managers and business school professors/administrators in China, using interviews. The findings suggest that the perceptions of both concepts are tinged with cultural nuances. The study has implications for further developing business ethics research programs in the Chinese context and for crosscultural communications and management.
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63The effect of the recent insider-trading scandal on stock prices of securities firmsJournal of Business Ethics 8 (4). 1989.This paper addresses the impact of the unethical business conduct of a few individuals that shook the financial market in 1986. Specifically, in the study undertaken for this paper, the wealth status of the shareholders of securities firms was examined in relation to the public disclosure of the insider-trading scandals involving Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, and their confederates. It was hypothesized that the expected market-adjusted stock returns for the securities firms would be negative as a …Read more
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25Event risk covenants and shareholder wealth: Ethical implications of the "poison put" provision in bonds (review)Journal of Business Ethics 22 (2). 1999.This paper examines the ethical implications of "poison put" provisions included in bond offerings. A number of firms are using event-risk protections in bond offerings in an effort to attract investors back into the bond market. One of the most common event-risk protections is a "poison put" provision, which allows the bondholder to "put" the bond back to the firm at par or at a premium under certain specified conditions, such as a takeover effort or a downgrading of the bond by rating agencies…Read more
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24The use of “shark repellents” to prevent corporate takeovers: An ethical perspective (review)Journal of Business Ethics 12 (2). 1993.Certain types of corporate charter antitakeover amendments, or shark repellents, may not serve the interests of the stockholders or the stakeholders of the firm. This paper extends the examination of the use of shark repellents by taking an ethical perspective to synthesize prior research on shark repellents and their relationship to stockholder and stakeholder welfare. Some shark repellents seem to benefit certain interest groups at the expense of other groups.
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55Employee testing: An ethical perspective (review)Journal of Business Ethics 7 (3). 1988.This paper deals with the conflict between the desire of an employer to test employees for honesty and chemical dependency, and the right of the employee to privacy. Not only is the physical privacy of the employee infringed upon, but the psychic privacy of the individual as well. It is the conclusion of the paper that such an invasion of privacy is not justified without serious and compelling reason, and not the mere chance that testing will reveal problems among some percentage of the tested p…Read more
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14The Business – Government-Society RelationshipProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 20 227-238. 2009.The paper compares the business-government-society relationship between China and the U.S. through the analysis of three cases: the tainted milk scandal in China, the beef recall in the U.S., and the peanut scandal in the U.S.
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44The Importance of Context in Understanding CSRProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 22 131-141. 2011.This paper establishes six critical elements – history, political structures, religion, social customs, civil society openness, and level of economic development –needed to understand the context of corporate social responsibility in other countries and other cultures. Labor conditions in China are used as a case study.
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62Wal-Mart in North AmericaProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 17 77-82. 2006.This paper explores the social, legal, and political issues Wal-Mart faces in each of the three North American countries and suggests reasons for the quite significant differences. It also issues a call to Business and Society scholars to add prescriptive work to the already large body of descriptive work that has been collected.
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49A Tale of Two Boycotts: A New Look at the Necessary Ingredients for Consumer ActivismProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 18 425-430. 2007.Consumers have the power to influence the social performance of corporations, but in the United States this power has gone largely unused. And too little attention has been paid to consumer issues by IABS scholars. To better understand why and when consumer boycotts are either effective or successful, this paper studies the reaction to two oil industry incidents: the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and the Shell Oil Brent Spar controversy. Five ingredients are identified as important to the und…Read more
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26The Business – Government-Society RelationshipProceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 20 227-238. 2009.The paper compares the business-government-society relationship between China and the U.S. through the analysis of three cases: the tainted milk scandal in China, the beef recall in the U.S., and the peanut scandal in the U.S.
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