- Hardcover: 360 pages
- Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press (30 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0268040087
- ISBN-13: 978-0268040086
- Product Dimensions: 2.2 x 1.8 x 0.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,236,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This volume challenges reigning shareholder and stakeholder management theories using philosophical and theological dimensions of the Catholic tradition. The contributors, including management theorists, moral theologians, economists, ethicists and attorneys, debate complicated issues such as the ethics of profit seeking, equity and efficiency in the firm, the shareholder value principle, social ethics of corporate management, the principle of subsidiarity and modern contract theory. While contributors share a respect for the power of markets, they also assign value to community, common goods and personal virtue. Essays combine organizational and management theory with philosophical and theological accounts of human purpose. A central argument of this collection is that the tradition of Catholic social thought provides principles that enable fruitful conversations across disciplines regarding the purpose of business and economic activity.
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A balance between the needs of the soul and the business
2 Jan 2003
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Rethinking The Purpose Of Business: Interdisciplinary Essays From The Catholic Social Tradition by Michael J. Naughton (Director of the John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought at the Center for Catholic Studies, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minnesota) is a selection of impressive and insightful essays by erudite authors concerning business management theories that remain in harmony with social traditions of Catholicism. From keeping an ethical balance while seeking profits, to modern contract theory, to the social ethics of corporate management, Rethinking the Purpose of Business strives to maintain a balance between the needs of the soul and the business necessity of the bottom line. Rethinking The Purpose Of Business is thoughtful and thought-provoking reading which is especially commended to anyone seeking to balance the requirements of faith with the demands of commerce.
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