Search results for "Ethics"

Ethical Behavior and Organizational Innovation: Analysis of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Latvia

2018

Abstract Innovations can provide small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) a significant competitive advantage considering the ambiguous business environment. SMEs may face lower capacity and more constrained funding for long-term investments, however, understanding innovation in a broader sense and looking into organizational structures, behaviors and processes, SMEs have an opportunity to become more competitive. This study analyzes the impact of ethical behavior as a part of an organizational culture on organizational innovation performance in SMEs. Six hundred SMEs in Latvia were surveyed to assess whether employees follow the principles of business ethics in their work and what is the …

Ethical issues in topical computer vision applications

2017

Computer vision is a research area that contains multiple methods to approach numerous visual problems. In the past decade, it has been rapidly evolving with the introduction of many new technologies and applications that utilize different computer vision techniques. The purpose of this study is to identify the ethical issues that concern recent trending computer vision applications and their tasks. This was done by conducting an integrative literature review and synthesizing various studies that have been conducted on the different applications of computer vision and their ethical issues. The result was a synthesized framework of different ethics themes that relate to the different areas o…

The Color of Avant-Garde: Kenneth Goldsmith’s "The Body of Michael Brown"

2018

In the following paper, I put forth a claim that literary works created according to the rules of conceptualism, seemingly devoid of expression, often reveal that values are inseparable from any textual operations. This is visible in Kenneth Goldsmith’s recent project, “The Body of Michael Brown,” which follows the format of Goldsmith’s previous book—Seven American Deaths and Disasters—a transcription of news reports of American national disasters, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy or the attacks of 9/11. The text rewrites the autopsy report issued by the St. Louis County Coroner’s Office on the shooting of Michael Brown, an African-American teenager shot and killed by a white po…

Ethical convention in sport D’Agostino and Morgan about the rules and conventions in sport

2015

En el presente artículo nos proponemos realizar una comparación de la posición de D’Agostino con la de otro de los representantes del convencionalismo: William Morgan. A D’Agostino nos referiremos en el primer apartado y a Morgan en el segundo. Nos preguntaremos si Morgan, además de inscribir sus tesis dentro del convencionalismo, participa al mismo tiempo de la concepción internalista del deporte. Aunque uno y otro autor son convencionalistas, existen matices muy distintos entre sus posiciones que caben ser resaltadas, a fin de clarificar su proximidad con otras teorías filosófico-deportivas. In this paper we propose a comparison of the position of D’Agostino with other rpresentatives of c…

Environmental Stewardship, Moral Psychology and Gardens

2013

Vast and pervasive environmental problems such as climate change and biodiversity loss call every individual to active stewardship. Their magnitude and causal and strategic structures, however, pose powerful challenges to our moral psychology. Stewardship may feel overburdening, and appear hopeless. This may lead to widespread moral and political disengagement. This article proposes a resolve to garden practices as a way out of that danger, and describes the ways in which it will motivate individuals to so act as to coordinate on behavioural patterns that will significantly alleviate grave, but seemingly distant and intractable environmental quandaries.

Discarding the mirror : the importance of intangible social resources to responsibility in business in a Finnish context

2010

Corporate social responsibility and community development in a mining region in India:

2019

Facing the Normative Challenges : The Potential of Reflexive Historical Research

2016

This article explores methodological problems of qualitative research templates, that is, the Eisenhardt and the Gioia case study approaches, which are relevant for the business and society (B&S) scholarship and outlines a reflexive historical research methodology that has the potential to face these challenges. Building on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, we draw critical attention to qualitative B&S research and frame the methodological problems identified as the normative challenges of qualitative research, that is, to productively deal with both the researchers’ norms and the research subjects’ norms. We then introduce the reflexive historical case study (RHCS), …

The Throne of God as a prototype of primacy in the Church and in creation

2019

This study emphasises the cosmic dimensions of the Church understood as the Throne of God, analysing its understanding in this way by the great writers and thinkers of the ancient world, for example, Philo the Alexandrine, Saint Dionysius the Areopagite and Saint Irene of Lyon. The reconstitution of all the cosmological contexts and understanding of the Throne of God inspired by the texts of the ancient authors is opening a very interesting perspective over the existence of the Church as a cosmic Throne of God and reassembling of all the heavenly and intelligible creations sustained and vivified by the primal light of God transmitted in this way towards the lower degrees of the heavenly ang…

Motyw "wieśnej rycerki", czyli światowe sprawy pani wrony w twórczości Mikołaja Reja

2020

The subject of the article is the symbolism of the crow considered against the background of the old encyclopedic tradition. The comparison of erudite content in the field of natural history with fragments of Mikołaj Rej’s works brings interesting insights. It turns out that the crow occupies a prominent place in the allegorical zoo of Reja. Allegoric interpretations related to the theme of this bird in Nagłowiczanin’s works do not go beyond the traditionally accepted interpretations. Unpleasant croaking, raven exterior, or even the crow’s thieving habits did not deprive her of universal friendliness. Already in Aesop’s fairy tales you can admire the extraordinary cunning and thrift of this…