It is often assumed in business ethics publications that a business activity is a kind of a profession, and that is why business ethics is treated as the professional ethics. However, such an approach does not seem well-founded because the notion of business does not mean only one, possible to define precisely, kind of activity. One could admittedly recognize that business ethics is the ethics of a businessman; that is, a person being the owner of the enterprise and managing it. However, presenting the issue in such a way, would exclude the activity of these enterprises which do not have a sole proprietor(e.g. state-owned enterprises and joint-stock companies) from the competence of business ethics.
It is important to specify terms – the truth is conformity of a word to a thing or an event, whereas a lie is making the truth unavailable to someone who has the right to it. John Paul II promoted the essential truth that a man is God’s creation; God knows what is good for his creation; human person is God’s image, then should act in such a manner that the image is clear. Faith has moral dimension-it is moral dimension. It is the source of practical involvement which remains in harmony with faith. The principles of one’s conduct are God’s commandments, whereas individualistic ethics, practised in the spirit of illusory freedom, prevents us from discovering the only certain truth-God. Contemporary crisis of society is that faith is rejected and as a result there is breaking off the essential and constitutive bond between the truth and freedom. In economy we can see that the truth in one’s conduct cannot withstand the style of the present geared towards profit. It is proper that the Church supports profit but the profit cannot be the only regulator of a company’s life. There are still human and moral factors. Economic growth should respect human values. Freedom in the economic and social area cannot be torn out from the truth about a human being. The meeting of the Church and the workers’ movement in 1980 showed that it is possible to demand ethics in economy in the name of the truth of a human being-then the civilisation of love is created with its main principles: a person before a thing, more important to be than to have, ethics before technology, mercy before justice, defeat evil with good. Problems existing in this area cannot be disregarded. The matter is important and urging – otherwise, as Pope Leo XIII said in the Encyclical Rerum Novarum, delaying would make evil incurable.
In modern time we can observe great interest for ethics in economy and in the market. Ethical culture is being more and more understood as conditio sine qua non. We are confronting now all kinds of crises in economics and finance, but it is in principle one great moral crisis of human being. We need to return to old principles of moral behaving and use the Church’s teaching in social field.
In every human society, the role of history in determining the level of development cannot be ignored. History is not just an academic discipline, but also the totality of changes humanity has undergone as well as the interactions man enters into with his fellow man on the one hand and the environment on the other since the evolution of the human society. It is therefore, the sum total of these that brings about the development in the society. The history of Africa before colonial conquest is full of various attempts by the people to develop their various areas using indigenous technology, which in some cases are considered very advanced. However, over the years especially after independence, this idea seems to have completely disappeared, which in the view of the paper is due to the neglect of study and knowledge of history. This paper therefore examines the role of the neglect of history in the reality and causes of contemporary economic woes in present day African setting Data obtained from primary and secondary sources were deployed to carry out the study with an analytical and narrative historical method. Findings indicate that the neglect of man in Africa to learn from the lessons of history (both the study and interaction) is responsible for the seemingly gloomy future which the continent is presently faced with as reflected in massive brain-drain, import dependency economy, raw material production industries, and incessant strife among others. The paper concludes that a genuine sense of history, a fidelity to its revelations, courageous acceptance of its judgments and workings and its implications for both the present and future, are necessary steps in the formation of the basic architecture for building a viable Africa. The paper cannot, claim to present the entire history of the continent over the period covered from a uniform perspective. It deal with some selected developments and, in this way, aim to contribute to the presentation of a more multifaceted view especially as it relates to the socio-economic stagnation and decline of indigenous technology of the African continent from a historical point of view.
The article focuses on the analysis of the importance of fisheries and aquaculture to Poland’s economy. The article presents statistics on the value, employment and budget allocated to fisheries and aquaculture.
Axiological studies have been part of sociological research into business activity since the beginnings of the field. But there is still no agreement among scholars as two major concepts that are competing for dominance. One, building on the ideas proposed by Max Weber, advocates the priority of value over instrumental rationality, and it follows the path typical of ideological determinism. The other, with its roots in Karl Marx’s historical materialism, argues for the primacy of matter over mind. What these two have in common is the presence of two aspects, axiological and existential. The difference lies in their position of importance. Each approach makes different kinds of reductions, which are challenged by contemporary socio-economic systems that operate according to post-industrial logic. The goal of this article is to arrive at a new understanding of economic axiology. This understanding must be free from any reductionism that would assign the axiology radically different roles – either as a dependent or independent variable in growth. Economic axiology will be presented as a central category, a product of human interaction, and both a contributor to and an outcome of growth. Last but not least, based on the principle of double morphogenesis, specific economic axiologies will be identified.
It is already the third time when the International Scientific Conference has taken place in Torun, attended by more than 100 scholars from all scientific centres as well as several participants from abroad. The initiator and scientific manager of all so far conferences has been dr Joanna Marszałek-Kawa, assistant director of the Faculty of Political Sciences of Nicolaus Copernicus University. The conference was arranged by the Asia – Pacific Society and the Faculty of Political Sciences, Faculty of International Studies of Nicolaus Copernicus University and Polish-Chinese Friendship Society.
Mirosław Dzielski (1941-1989), a Polish philosopher and a political activist, in his academic life at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow) he focused on analyses of metaphysical subtleties of Newton’s and Leibniz’s conceptions of space and time but his main interest were the major problems of ethics and political philosophy combined with economics. Influenced by L. von Mises, F. A. von Hayek and M. Friedman and the idea of the undesigned results of human activities, he identified the main problem of his native country Poland and the whole region under a totalitarian control of the USSR in the 1970s and 1980s, as a search for forces, which would stop its civilizational collapse and begin its rebirth. His idea was to destroy the oppressive system in an evolutionary way through the invigoration of natural propensities to improve one’s situation. Members of the Communist nomenklatura were no exception, and their involvement in economic activities backed by the free market legal framework were to open opportunities to all members of society (individual liberty) and to lead to the economic and civilizational progress followed by a political liberal constitution.
Each enlargement of the European Communities (EC) and later the European Union (EU) has had an indisputable in! uence on inner cohesion of the organization itself. The participants of the integration processes have included the countries deviating from the previous Member States by the level of the economic development, the structures of their economies, macroeconomic conditions, etc. This differentiation has taken its toll especially on the functioning and the expenses of common policies (mainly transfer ones) as well as the execution of the integration reinforcement plans such as the European Economic and Monetary Union. In this aspect the most serious consequences were caused by the admission of countries that were much weaker economically, especially Ireland, Greece, Spain and Portugal. These countries had to go through a long way of reforms in order to become rightful members of the organization and for their integration with the Communities to become a mutual success. A big part of the expenses connected with these reforms was financed by the common budget thanks to the structural funds and the Common Agricultural Policy.
Transformations in the ownership of state owned companies in Poland a! er 1989 played a pivotal role in the general political transformation which took place in Poland at that time. Those ownership changes were an essential element of the political transformation of Poland. The process of transforming the country’s economy from central economic planning to free market economy was started by Tadeusz Mazowiecki’s government. On October 9, 1989, the Council of Ministers accepted a document Guidelines and Directions of Poland’s Economic Policy which aimed at stabilizing the country’s economy and at transforming its economic system. " e stabilization programme was supposed to be implemented by January, 1990.3 " e second stage of the governmental plan was planned for the years 1990–1991 and one of its main tenets was a transformation of ownership rights. Krzysztof Lis, the government’s plenipotentiary for ownership transformation, was responsible for the organization and legislation of the process of privatizing Polish economy. T. Mazowiecki’s cabinet prepared both a draft for the new amendment of the legal act concerning state owned companies and a dra! of a new act about privatizing state owned companies.
The aim of the research undertaken is the analysis of the impact of economic globalisation on cultural transformations and an attempt at settling the problem of this process effects, i.e. de ciding whether it results, to a greater extent, in social and economic unification or diversification. There are more and more supporters of the opinion that, globally, cultural differences blur, and people representing different cultures gradually become similar to one another, mainly as a result of the Western dominance and the common fascination with the Western products, and, to a smaller extent, thanks to the contact and mixing of mutual cultural interactions. The dominant trends in the contemporary gl obalised world include commercialisation, consumerism, liberalisation, privatisation, eregulation, individualism and competition. However, despite the enormous potential of the so - called global forces to influence cultural changes and the multitude of cha nnels of influencing people, they are not able to impose one global culture on the world. The margin of diversity is still very wide. Moreover, the meetings of different cultures result in the emergence of new cultural varieties. Therefore, on the one hand, the contemporary world is undergoing cultural unification, and, on the other hand, it is a mosaic made up of increasing cultural varieties. It may happen that a positive social capital is developed within a multicultural organisation, characterised by a higher development potential, flexibility, creativity, productivity and innovativeness. Thus, cultural diversity, in which the modern man has to function, can be an asset and a source of advantage over monocultural organisations.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the course of change. Examples of rapid changes in some industries include remote working, the increased popularity of restaurant food delivery services, greater industry consolidation, moving supply chains back to national markets. Therefore, in order to maintain economic security, companies should quickly implement adaptive forms related to logistics management, available resources, or in relation to key strategic business areas. The time is coming for innovative companies which, thinking in a forward-looking, and also unconventional way, will conduct their business because only companies which will see the new trend related to the redefinition of existing business models in time can win against the competition. The following article shows the cause-and-effect relationship between the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on economic security and the prospects and challenges facing businesses today.
On the basis of total assessments, analyzes, diagnoses and forecasts presented in the paper, it should be recognized that human resources - in particular qualified staff – are the most valuable resource of modern economies. Changes that occur significantly may decrease this asset. The key determinant shaping indicated threat is reversal of the age pyramid and associated: demographic depression and population aging. So how to shape solutions in these realities, thanks to which you can limit effects of changes taking place and counteract them? In the context of human resources, it seems that it is inevitable first and foremost to anticipate changes and to respond to it constantly.
Research background: The outbreak and spread of COVID-19 brought disastrous influences to the development of human society, especially the development of economy. Purpose of the article: Considering that knowing about the situations of the existing studies about COVID-19 and economy is not only helpful to understand the research progress and the connections between COVID-19 and economy, but also provides effective suggestions for fighting against COVID-19 and protecting economy, this paper analyzes the existing studies on COVID-19 and economy from the perspective of bibliometrics. Methods: Firstly, the discussion starts from the statistical analysis, in which the basic distributions of the studies on different countries/regions, different publication sources, different publication years, etc., are presented. Then, the paper shows the cooperation situations of the researchers from analyzing the related citation networks, co-citation networks and cooperation networks. Further, the theme analysis of the related studies is presented, in which the related co-occurrence networks are shown, and then the detailed analyses of the studies are introduced. Based on these analyses, the discussions about future research are presented, and finally we draw a conclusion. Findings & value added: The analyses not only present the basic situation on the research about COVID-19 and Economy, but also show the future research trends, which can provide meaningful research expectations.
The end of World War I caused a major change in the geopolitical map of Europe, when four continental empires fell apart and a large number of nation-states were formed in their territories. The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes was among them. Actually, it was a multinational state, created by the unification of the Kingdom of Serbia with the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, which was created only a month before by South Slavonic provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy up to 1918. The changes that occurred during that process were particularly strong in the field of economy, because a completely new economic territory was formed. The goal of this paper is to research their strength and volume in the province of Dalmatia, which was the least developed province of the Austrian part of the Monarchy up to 1918. The research was conducted as a case-study, for which purpose the district of Makarska was selected. All major branches of economy were studied (agriculture and fishery; industry; trade; tourism) in the period from 1918 to 1929, when due to the introduction of King Alexander’s dictatorship and the onset of the Great Depression great changes in the economy life of the Kingdom occurred.
The development of human civilisation led to a broad normalisation of human life. The legal system, however, must always uphold our inherent and inalienable human dignity, which means that law must be in service of the individual. The aim of the all pervading legal regulation is, generally, to ensure a harmonious socio-economic development and to facilitate the individual’s self-realisation. A function of law is, on the one hand, to fit the letter of the law to the reality and, on the other hand, to fit the reality to the letter of statutory law. A particular phenomenon which is subjected to juridification is technological progress by which human civilisation can be defined. It can lead to disruptions in functioning of the existing social, economic, political and other arrangements. Law deals with it in two aspects. Firstly, it regularises the arter-effects of the progress, including the threats it generates. Secondly, it deals with the progress itself as such.
The Baltic Sea Region was the first multi-country region in the world to adopt common goals and actions for sustainable development. The instrument for that cooperation is Baltic 21 (formally “An Agenda 21 for the Baltic Sea Region”). There are two definitions of sustainable development (SD): technical and nontechnical. Technical definition: “a sound balance among the interactions of the impacts (positive and/or negative), or stresses, on the four major quality systems: People, Economic Development, Environment and Availability of Resources”. The non-technical definition was given as being: “a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make wise use of our resources, and enhance social benefits” [Global Community Assessment Centre].
Despite the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing world recession, the integration of the world’s economies is unlikely to falter significantly, especially as barriers to trade and exchange continued to diminish across the globe. This paper suggests that through a more thorough integration of the ressourcement method of renewing the Catholic Church through returning to the sources of Christian inspiration – most notably Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the Church Fathers – Catholic social teaching can develop in ways that underline core Christian themes that are very relevant to economic globalization. With particular reference to the first three encyclical letters of Benedict XVI – Deus Caritas Est (2005), Spe Salvi (2007), and Caritas in Veritate (2009) – the paper illustrates how through deeper reflection upon themes such as love and hope, Catholic social teaching is able to renew Catholic thinking about human flourishing and integral human development in a global economy, especially when it comes to themes such as justice and utopia.
(Post)crisis economy becomes less orthodox and hermetic. It starts opening itself to external intellectual trends and views its own judgments with less confidence, additionally subjecting them to a growing number of reservations. This paper offers a selection of crisis related reflections.
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