Principles of Ethical Economy

Koslowski, Peter

doi:10.1007/978-94-010-0956-0

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“…The question of research is whether the way this new market segment emerged was predetermined, or if the emergence was influenced by contingent events, which would have ended up differently than the factual emergence (meaning that to a given, realized event at a point in time, an alternative event could have been possible, which would have changed the course of the following events). This research question is motivated by the above mentioned dilemma from the perspective of evolutionary economics that the intended market actions of individuals are bounded by contingent circumstances, giving the market a contingent character [6][7][8][9][10]. Based on these considerations, the author provides a review of the literature in Section 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Emergence of the ERP Software Market between Product Innovation and Market Shaping

Erkut

2018

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Abstract:In this empirical research, the author focuses on the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market. Based on a contingent perspective of how markets emerge and can be shaped, the author asks the research question of whether the emergence of the ERP market was a necessary, strong, or weak consequence of the product innovation of Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (SAP), which was the pioneer innovator in this specific market. This question is answered with a graph theoretical model of contingency and causality in order to measure the causality between events occurring over historical time. In this sense, the research article provides an application of the method proposed by Lehmann-Waffenschmidt. The author finds that the emergence of the ERP software market is contingent and was not predetermined; path dependencies play a big role in the way how this market segment emerged. With respect to both entrepreneurial and economic factors of relevance, the case of the SAP is far from a predetermined success story. The results are relevant for a number of reasons. First, the results indicate that instead of talking about success stories, a new perspective in market shaping can highlight a more realistic way of the contingent nature of entrepreneurial activity and product innovations. Second, the results aim to bridge the gap between marketing and the emergence of markets, as it was indicated as a research gap by recent contributions in marketing science. Third, the introduction of counterfactual events in the business history of SAP indicate a methodological innovation that has not yet been considered by marketing and entrepreneurship scholars, which may be helpful regarding recognizing patterns from the past and also regarding contingent planning for the future.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emergence of the ERP Software Market between Product Innovation and Market Shaping

Erkut

2018

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…The research on the literature confirms that, according to numerous authors, the practiced religion still influences the fostering of individual ethical behavior (Ananthram and Christopher 2016;Koslowski 2001). There is also a group of authors who derive ethical and moral behavior completely from human evolutionary heritage.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…In general, religion has a positive influence on fostering ethical behavior (Ananthram and Christopher 2016;Koslowski 2001;Purzycki et al 2018). Together with economics and ethics, it creates a triad, within the framework of which ethics compensates for the imperfections of economics and religion compensates for the imperfections of ethics (Koslowski 2001). A human ethical action may derive from religion.…”

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The Perception of Organisational Nepotism Depending on the Membership in Selected Christian Churches

2020

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Nepotism, just like any other form of favouratism in the workplace, is a phenomenon that is basically evaluated negatively. It adversely influences social and economic development and it has not been considered in relation to the membership of a given Christian denomination. This article reviews the literature on nepotism and takes into account the religious perspective on nepotism while the research part focuses on the analysis of nepotism taking into consideration both Catholic and Protestant perspectives. Thus, the article falls within the discussion initiated by Max Weber, who found that religious membership had an influence on economic development because business leaders, capital owners, and a highly qualified workforce and well-trained enterprise employees were, by and large, Protestants. The article is aimed at analyzing the effects of nepotism and evaluating this phenomenon from the perspective of the abovementioned Christian denominations. Qualitative and quantitative methods were included in the conducted research. As far as the qualitative method is concerned, an individual in-depth interview, conducted with two Catholic and two Protestant clerics, was applied. Within the second stage, i.e., the quantitative surveys, information received in the interviews was verified and the way of understanding and accepting the phenomenon of nepotism depending on the religious membership was learnt. This research demonstrated that Protestants regard the phenomenon of nepotism as negative more frequently than Catholics and the phenomenon is more common among Catholics than Protestants.

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“…The first one, which we will conditionally call anthropological, integrates economy into a sociocultural system, considering the world as the system of meanings penetrating all components and defining them as components of a single historical type of society. The economic behavior of people is governed by basic social values and norms affecting all aspects of public life (Begelsdayk & Maseland, 2016;Zaslavskaya, 2003;Kirdina, 2004;Kleiner, 2004;Kozlowski, 1999;Polanyi, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%