The book Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (Harper Business, 2001) is intriguing as well as important.1 First of all, unlike so much research in the field of management, there is a genuine attempt here to produce a scientifically verifiable study, with a...
Did you know that a “Marathon” is going on around Europe that will culminate in an “Olympics” in 2004? The “marathon” is a series of conferences in 15 major cities across Europe on the question of “Corporate Social Responsibility” (CSR), promoted by several business organisations and the European Union. The...
The phenomenon of Islamic banking has been attracting increasing attention, not only because of the train of geopolitical events set off by the September 11th attacks, but also because of developments within the Islamic banking community itself and the alleged business opportunities that could await banks that decide to provide...
A summary of recent initiatives by various international financial bodies Introduction Since the tragic events of September 11th, uncovering and blocking the use of international financial mechanisms to fund terrorist activities has become a central concern for international financial bodies, especially those concerned with overseeing the operation of the...
Introduction Human development is the central aim of all social, political and economic systems. This has recently been made particularly clear with regard to developing economies, but it is no less true of advanced economies, even if we do not often think about them in these terms. In this paper...
University of Notre Dame Press, South Bend, 2001, pp. 336, $ 21,95 ($ 38,95 hardback) Contents Foreword Robert Wahlstedt, Founder and former President of Reell Precision Manufacturing Preface Jean-Loup Dherse, former CEO of the Eurotunnel project, former Vice President of the World Bank, andMember of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum...
1. Introduction Laborem Exercens (henceforward referred to as LE) follows the social encyclicals before it in maintaining that “work is a key, probably the essential key, to the whole social question” (n.11). Furthermore, “if the solution – or rather the gradual solution of the social question . . . must...
Leuven University Press, Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium CLVII, 2000, 307pp + xxi In 1997, the Lateran University in Rome held an international conference on Catholic social teaching. Not surprisingly for anyone who knows the Lateran, the program focused almost exclusively on a consideration of the development of papal encyclicals,...
The “First International Meeting on Finance and the Common Good” took place in Geneva at the end of March 2001. About 40 people participated, including financial operators, government officials and academics, along with representatives of NGO’s and of advocacy groups from around the world. Finance and the Common Good is...
A cursory glance at an annual report of any international organisation suggests that a major political and economic goal today is to create open societies and open economies. Protectionism is out – free trade is in; capital controls are out – free movement of capital is in; any kind of...
