Christian Business Values in an Intercultural Environment
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Christian Business Values in an Intercultural Environment
Editors: Rueschhoff, Norlin | Schaum, Konrad
Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, Vol. 393
(1989)
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Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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CHRISTIAN BUSINESS VALUES IN AN INTERCULTURAL ENVIRONMENT | V | ||
PART A. INTRODUCTION | 1 | ||
Chapter I. Clemens-August Andreae and Roger Skurski: Global Values, Institutions and Policies: A Conceptual Framework | 1 | ||
Prologue | 1 | ||
Conceptual Framework for the Research | 2 | ||
Chapter II. Norlin G. Rueschhoff: Intercultural Business Values: A European-American Dialogue | 4 | ||
The Intercultural Environment | 4 | ||
Christian Business Values | 5 | ||
Institutional Cultures and Structures | 6 | ||
Religiocultural Values In Institutional Policy-Making | 7 | ||
Reflections And Projections | 7 | ||
PART Β. THE INTERCULTURAL ENVIRONMENT | 9 | ||
Chapter IIΙ. Clemens-August Andreae and Reinhard Β. Koester: Values and Policies in the Global Economy: A European-American Institutional Challenge | 9 | ||
Introduction | 9 | ||
A Religious Perspective | 10 | ||
Family Values | 13 | ||
Economic Stagnation, Values and Capitalistic Institutions | 16 | ||
Institutional Policies | 18 | ||
Conclusion | 20 | ||
Chapter IV. André Goddu: "Eurosclerosis" and the Political Integration of Western Europe--a Historical Perspective | 21 | ||
Introduction: " Eurosclerosis" | 21 | ||
The Effects of Recent Efforts Towards European Integration | 22 | ||
Historical Perspectives on The European Dilemma | 26 | ||
The Modern Dilemmas of European Identity | 29 | ||
Responses to The Dilemmas of European Identity | 30 | ||
The Inherent Causes of "Europessimism" | 35 | ||
Summary and Conclusions | 37 | ||
Chapter V. Klaus Lanzinger: Europe, Our Old Home: An American Cultural Experience | 40 | ||
The Old Home Theme | 40 | ||
Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Sense of Homecoming | 41 | ||
Henry James: Romantic Illusions | 45 | ||
Thomas Wolfe: The Search for the Father | 49 | ||
Our Old Home: Of a Wider Significance | 52 | ||
Exhibit I | 53 | ||
PART C. BUSINESS VALUE PERSPECTIVES | 57 | ||
Chapter VI. Thomas Werge: Corporate Kingdoms and the Kingdom of God in America | 57 | ||
Introduction | 57 | ||
Individualism and Populism | 59 | ||
Corporate Anonymity and the Absent Person | 61 | ||
Abstract Kingdoms | 64 | ||
The Kingdom of God in America | 69 | ||
Chapter VII. Gerhard Prosi: The Economic Significance of Ethics | 77 | ||
The Golden Rule | 77 | ||
The Need for Ethics in Economics | 78 | ||
The Application of Ethics in Economics | 79 | ||
Problems in Applying Ethics | 79 | ||
Performance Norms vs. Process Norms | 80 | ||
Internalization of Performance Norms | 80 | ||
Development of Process Norms | 81 | ||
Individual Ethics vs. Legal Standards | 82 | ||
The Politicization of Economic Ethics | 84 | ||
Approaches to Ethical Policy Analysis | 86 | ||
PART D. INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES | 88 | ||
Chapter VIII. Jose Antonio Fernandez-Arena: Mexican Operative and Administrative Culture | 88 | ||
Social Science in Mexico | 88 | ||
Institutional Objectives | 90 | ||
Formal Structure | 92 | ||
Human Aspects | 100 | ||
Conclusion | 105 | ||
Chapter IX. Werner Mussner and Norlin Rueschhoff: Institutional Infrastructures as an Element of Intercultural Value Analysis | 106 | ||
The Institutional Actors | 106 | ||
Labor Unions | 107 | ||
Business Firms and Associations | 110 | ||
Government | 113 | ||
Non-business Institutions | 115 | ||
Non-profit Associations | 117 | ||
Summary and Conclusion | 121 | ||
Chapter Χ. Wilfried Vyslozil and Hans Mühlbacher: Making Corporate Strategies Work: The Role of Values, Norms, and Attitudes | 123 | ||
Corporate Strategy and Change | 123 | ||
Previous Research | 124 | ||
A General Framework for the Analysis of Organizational Change Required By a New Corporate Policy | 127 | ||
A Field Application of the General Framework | 132 | ||
Results of the Study | 134 | ||
Conclusions | 141 | ||
PART Ε. ANALYZING RELIGIOCULTURAL VALUES | 143 | ||
Chapter XI. Scott R. Safranski and Ik-Whan Kwon: Religiocultural Values in Management: Isolating Specific Relationships | 143 | ||
Isolating Value Relationships | 143 | ||
Religion, Culture, and Management Values | 144 | ||
Approaches to Measuring Values | 146 | ||
Religion-Value Relationships in a Student Sample | 147 | ||
Conclusions and Further Possibilities for Study | 152 | ||
Chapter XII. Michael J. Radzicki: Incorporating Christian Values into Business Simulations: An Institutional Dynamics Approach | 157 | ||
Introduction | 157 | ||
The Fundamentals of the Institutional Dynamics Approach | 158 | ||
An Illustration | 160 | ||
Simulating the Model | 164 | ||
Summary and Conclusions | 172 | ||
PART F. REFLECTIONS AND PROJECTIONS | 173 | ||
Chapter XIII. Msgr. Joseph Gremillion: The Church as Transnational Source and Carrier of Values Affecting Economic and Business Institutions and Policies | 173 | ||
The Reflections | 173 | ||
Reflection 1: The Economy and Business: What are They? | 173 | ||
Reflection 2: Values, Personal and Societal | 174 | ||
Reflection 3: Economic Values in Christian History | 175 | ||
Reflection 4: Catholic Social Teaching Since Leo XIII | 176 | ||
Reflection 5: The Christian Source of Values for the Economy | 178 | ||
Reflection 6: Interpreters and Communicators of Economic Values: The Role of Universities, Conferences, Publications | 179 | ||
Chapter XIV. Norlin Rueschhoff and Konrad Schaum: Perspectives for Further Research | 182 | ||
The Conceptual Framework and Research Objective | 182 | ||
Social and Moral Values in the European-American Tradition | 183 | ||
Social and Moral Values in European-American Business | 184 | ||
Institutional and Administrative Structures | 185 | ||
Effects of Values in Individual and Collective Conduct in Business | 185 | ||
A Model for Socioeconomic Performance Evaluation | 186 | ||
Concluding Comments on Future Research | 187 |