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What Are the Logics Driving Your Firm?
Almandoz Rios, JohnArticle ART-2312-EFinance, Leadership and People ManagementAll organizations have some form of institutional logic defining what is taken for granted and what is appropriate or legitimate behavior. Most banks, for example, tend to be driven by a financial logic focused on profit maximization, which has served shareholders well, but if taken to the extreme, can lead to damaging consequences, as evidenced by the crisis. Drawing on extensive research the author has conducted into community and green banking...Starting at €8.20
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El papel de la ética en el diagnóstico y la solución de problemas directivos
Calleja, Ricardo; Marín, SergioTechnical Note BEN-137Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementLa presente nota ofrece, de forma resumida, una visión de las tres perspectivas fundamentales que se ponen en juego durante la resolución de conflictos directivos: la descriptiva, la instrumental y la evaluativo-normativa. La ética empresarial revela que estas tres perspectivas se encuentran relacionadas entre sí, es decir, que la actitud que tengamos ante la realidad (perspectiva evaluativa) condiciona el tipo de diagnóstico que podamos hacer d...Starting at €8.20
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Responsible Innovation
Calleja, RicardoTechnical Note BEN-142-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeTechnological changes increasingly have companies in a leading role. A key aspect of managerial responsibility today is the responsibility for technological innovation. It is necessary to consider realistically the expectations that technological changes generate, in order to assess fairly the contributions of innovation, its influence on the configuration of mentalities and lifestyles, and the implications of technological changes for the distri...Starting at €8.20
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What Are Companies Responsible For Whom Should Executives Serve
Calleja, RicardoTechnical Note BEN-143-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Governance, Leadership and People ManagementThis document compares the main existing models on a company's social responsibility, in their descriptive, instrumental and normative aspects, with the intention of giving a rigorous theoretical foundation to an eminently practical problem: whom do executives serve and what should their priority be? To do this, it briefly reviews the shareholder model, models of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and, specifically, the stakeholder model. Fina...Starting at €8.20
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Apple Inc. vs. the White House, or "Those Jobs Aren't Coming Back"
Calleja, Ricardo; Sánchez, BrunoCase BE-205-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Marketing, StrategyApple has developed a strong identity based on values of creativity, individual expression, emancipation, disruption, etc. Steve Job's successor, Tim Cook, is vocaly advocating for different social causes aligned with those values. However, it is doubtful whether Apple's policies and operations are truly consistent. A number of issues have been raised regarding Apple's tax paying policies, job destruction in the US, or cooperation with national s...Starting at €8.20
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Business Ethics, Step by Step
Calleja, Ricardo; Marín, SergioTechnical Note BEN-138-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Decision Analysis, Leadership and People ManagementThis technical note is intended to serve as an introductory text to the Business Ethics course taught by Prof. Ricardo Calleja. Based on class discussion, the note presents the various attitudes that often occur among those taking a course on business ethics: distrustful, skeptical, pragmatic, compliant or reformist. Faced with these attitudes, the reader is invited to go one step further and see business ethics not as a burden, a set of demand...Starting at €8.20
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Am I Messing It Up?: Frequent Ethical Issues in Business
Pilkis, Tomas; Calleja, RicardoTechnical Note BEN-144-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementBusiness is a very important element of human societies, contributing with efficient and innovative solutions of human needs, creating and distributing economic value. Moreover, many people work in business in different positions and functions, where they (can) serve the needs of others and society, enter into professional and personal relationships, learn and grow individually. In a word, business is in itself good, an honest profession. Howeve...Starting at €8.20
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Napster-Bertelsmann (A)
Evans W.; Used, Enrique; Ariño, AfricaCase DG-1353StrategyEn octubre de 2000, Bertelsmann y Napster llegaron a un acuerdo por el cual Bertelsmann prestaba a Napster 50 millones de dólares con opción de adquirir una participación mayoritaria en la empresa. Napster utilizaría este dinero para desarrollar una tecnología destinada a hacer que los usuarios pagaran la música que descargasen de la red. Ambas partes acordaron crear un modelo empresarial basado en el pago de una licencia de suscripción. Además, ...Starting at €8.20
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Napster-Bertelsmann (B)
Evans W.; Used, Enrique; Ariño, AfricaCase DG-1354StrategyEn octubre de 2000, Bertelsmann y Napster acordaron que la primera prestaría a Napster 50 millones de dólares, con una opción a hacerse con una participación mayoritaria de su capital social, para desarrollar una tecnología que hiciera que los usuarios pagaran por la música que se descargaban de la red. Crearían un modelo de negocio basado en tarifas de abono. Además, Bertelsmann aceptó retirarse del pleito que las principales compañías discográf...Starting at €5.74
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Napster-Bertelsmann (A)
Evans W.; Used, Enrique; Ariño, AfricaCase DG-1353-EStrategyIn October 2000, Bertelsmann and Napster agreed that Bertelsmann would lend Napster $50 million, with an option to take a majority equity stake for Napster to develop technology designed to get users to pay for music downloaded from the Net. They would create a subscription fee business model. Additionally Bertelsmann agreed to withdraw from the lawsuit that the major record companies had against Napster and would attempt to convince the other co...Starting at €8.20