Subject Index

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Mascarenhas, S.J., F.O.A.J. (2018), "Subject Index", Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets (Corporate Ethics for Turbulent Markets), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 307-320. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-187-820181016

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INDEX

ABInBev/SABMiller

, 268

Absorptive capacities

, 44

Accidental adversaries

, 110–111

Accounting and financial fraudulent practices

, 183

Advanced cloud computing structures

, 26

Affinity frauds

, 170

Agency problem

, 249, 255

Aggressive accounting

, 170

AI. See Artificial intelligence (AI)

Airbnb

, 253

Amazon

, 223, 229, 252

Ambiguity

, 32

American capitalism

, 129

American economy

, 20

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)

, 161

Analyst research conflicts

, 170

Angel investors

, 255–256

Antecedents

, 84

ARC. See Asset reconstruction company (ARC)

Archetypes of systems thinking

accidental adversaries

, 110–111

balancing process with delay

, 111–113

eroding goals

, 115

escalation

, 114–115

fixes that backfire

, 107–108

growth and underinvestment

, 113–114

limits to growth

, 102–104

shifting the burden

, 104–107

success to the successful

, 111

tragedy of the commons

, 108–110

Artificial intelligence (AI)

advanced cloud computing structures

, 26

advancements in

, 221–223

advantages

, 224

automation

, 28, 225–226

for better life

, 237–239

deep learning

, 26

definition

, 25, 219–220

disadvantages

, 224–225

ethical challenges of

, 233–234

fundamental essence and operations of

, 219–221

growth

, 241

legal aspects of

, 230–233

moral challenges of

, 234–236

neural network

, 26

potential

, 226–229

and robotics

, 217

robots

, 25

spiritual challenges of

, 236–237

Wanton AI developments

, 223–224

See also Automation

Artificial-intelligence-enhanced robots

, 236

Asset management, fluidity of

, 260–261

Asset Management Company (AMC)

, 256

Asset reconstruction company (ARC)

, 192

Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)

, 161

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

, 174

Association of Corporate Fraud Examiners

, 163

Augmented reality (AR)

, 226

Automatic tagging

, 219

Automation

, 26, 225

advantage

, 225

e-commerce websites

, 230

See also Artificial intelligence (AI)

Back-propagation

, 222

Balancing feedback loop

, 86

Balancing loop

, 110

Bank of Baroda

, 249

Bank of International Settlements (BIS)

, 205

Bankruptcy

, 207

Bankruptcy code

, 190

Bankruptcy Law

and credit

, 210

for India

, 195–197

Beguile

, 163

Benefit corporation

, 144

Bhushan Steel

, 190–191

Black Swan events

, 116

“Boiled frog” syndrome

, 114

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)

, 192

Bonding and binding spirit

, 49

Book value

, 212

Boundary or nonsystemic thinking

, 175

Brand names and warranties

, 39

Brexit

and global market turbulence

, 22–23

referendum

, 2

Bribery

, 161–165

Brundtland Commission’s Report

, 21

BSIA. See Buyer-seller information asymmetries (BSIA)

Buddhist tradition

, 49

Bureaucratization

, 134

Bush Treasury

, 257

Business corporation

, 13

Business ethics

, 47, 121

and managerial ethics

, 54–55

Business Outlook

, 192

Buyer–seller exchange management process values

, 69

Buyer–seller information asymmetries (BSIA)

, 11, 34–40

brand names and warranties

, 39

characterization

, 40

credence goods

, 39

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

, 35

information

, 34–35

information asymmetry (IA)

, 34, 39

knowledge-intensive industries

, 40

local, national and global spread, sources

, 36–38

low-cost goods

, 35

product complexity

, 39

professional knowledge-intensive service industries

, 35

quality signals

, 39

tangible products

, 39

technology/capital-intensive services

, 35

California energy market

, 19

Capital democratization

, 263–266

Capitalism

, 247

benefit corporation

, 144

capitalist corporation

, 129–133

capitalist problems resolution

, 136–144

conscious capitalism

, 144, 147–149

in defense of

, 125

definition

, 125–126

The Dharma of Capitalism (2012)

, 149–150

Hobbesian

, 127–128

inclusive capitalism

, 145–147

inherent social contradictions of

, 175–176

intentional public policies and

, 146–147

market turbulence of

, 174–175

positive effects

, 144

private property morality

, 126–127

profits and losses morality

, 133–134

Smith, Adam

, 128–129

social externalities of

, 176–177

systems thinking, FECS

, 136

turbulent market stabilization and market sustainability

, 137–138

Weber, Max, ethics of

, 134–135

welfare capitalism based on taxing

, 135–136

welfare capitalism/dependence culture

, 135

Capitalism-fed corporate greed

, 176

Capitalists

, 125, 249

corporation

, 129–133, 259–266

problems resolution

, 136–144

Cash shortage

, 28

C corporation

, 256

CDR. See Corporate debt restructuring (CDR)

Ceaseless renunciation

, 134

Certainty

, 31

Certificate of Deposit (CD)

, 86

Chicanery

, 163

Chinese economy

, 19

Chinese exports

, 20

Civilizations, spirituality

, 49

“Clean and green” products

, 21

Closer-to-home Sahara case

, 249

Cloud services

, 229

“Cocos”

, 205–206

Collaborative entrepreneurship

, 262

Collapsing gigantic investment markets

, 120

Commercialization of leisure

, 134

Communism

, 116

“Compensating feedback”

, 94, 95

Concomitants

, 84

Conflicting interests

, 249

Conflict of interest

, 248

Conscious capitalism

, 144, 147–149

Consequences

, 84

Consequentialism

, 58

Conspicuous consumption, sanctification of

, 134

Consumer boycotts

, 46–47

Consumer privacy

, 68

Contemporary market capitalism

, 128

Contextual intelligence

, 229

Conventional linear methods, feedback concept

, 85

Corporate bankruptcy

, 211

Corporate citizenship and stewardship

, 68

Corporate debt restructuring (CDR)

, 207

Corporate earnings

, 18

Corporate ethics

, 1, 4–5, 23, 30, 90–93

approach to

, 46–48

business ethics and managerial ethics

, 54–55

conceptually ethics

, 76

conceptual versus operational definitions

, 48

corporate ethics

, 56

corporate executive act

, 76

corporate value ethics

, 67

corrective justice, ethical theory of

, 66–67

deontology, ethical theory of

, 63

descriptive versus prescriptive ethics

, 57–58

distributive justice, ethical theory of

, 63–66

dynamics of

, 74–75

ethicality

, 51–52

ethical theories

, 58

ethics, business ethics, and corporate ethics

, 56–57

gray area in

, 68–69

laws

, 70

legality

, 52–53

legality, ethicality, morality, and spirituality (LEMS)

, 72–74

methodology of

, 69

morality

, 51, 70

nature’s templates that control human events

, 101–115

principles

, 76

spirituality

, 49–50, 69–70

systemic laws for systems thinking

, 93–101

teleology, ethical theory of

, 58–63

values

, 53–54

virtue ethics

, 71

Corporate executive act

, 75

Corporate executive action

, 65

Corporate frauds

combating

, 179–180

and corporate damages

, 161

instruments of market turbulence as

, 170–174

types of

, 165–170

Corporate governance

, 263

Corporate morality

, 51

Corporate psychologists

, 180

Corporate statesmen

, 3–4

Corporate sustainability

, 21

Corporate value ethics

, 33–34, 67

Corporation

, 243, 246

capitalist corporation

, 259–266

Chinese economic invasion

, 258–259

crowd-funding

, 253–256

crowd innovations

, 253–256

dissatisfaction with

, 248–250

FECS-based

, 247–248

high-potential startups

, 252–253

promoter dominance

, 250–251

share buybacks

, 251–252

tax reforms

, 256–257

Corrective justice, ethical theory of

, 66–67

Corruption, investigating

, 162–165

Cost containment and profit maximization

, 235

Cray Supercomputer Company

, 99

“Creative destruction”

, 122

Credence goods

, 39

Credit

, 204

and bankruptcy

, 210

rating agencies

, 208, 222

Crony capitalism

, 250

Crowd-funding

, 244–246, 253–256

Crowd innovations

, 253–256

Cultural competencies

, 13

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

, 175

Culture of prosperity

, 177

Customer relations management (CRM)

, 52

Cycle time performance

, 12

Darwinian Justice

, 176

Das Kapital (1867)

, 151

Debt obligations

, 205

Debt-overleveraged companies

, 195

Debt recovery tribunal (DRT)

, 196

Debt-to-equity ratio (D/E)

, 209

Deception

, 163

Decision-making processes

, 199, 263

Declining debt/EBITDA ratio

, 209

Deep learning

, 25

Defense Advances Research Projects Agency

, 26

Democratization of capital

, 263–266

Demonetization in India and market turbulence

ambiguity

, 32–33

cash shortage

, 28

certainty

, 31

characterizing the structure

, 32

corporate ethics

, 30

corporate “value ethics”

, 33

employment

, 28

impact

, 28

man-made wicked problems

, 33

organizational ethics cultures

, 33

public outrage and humiliation

, 28

ramifications

, 28

real estate business

, 28

Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

, 27

revenues

, 28

risk

, 31

socioeconomic problems

, 33

structure

, 29–30

supply chains

, 28

transport sector

, 28–29

uncertainty

, 31–32

wicked problems

, 32

Deontology, ethical theory of

, 63

Dependence culture

, 135

Depreciation and amortization

, 208

Determinants

, 84

Dharma

, 49

The Dharma of Capitalism (2012)

, 149–150

Dharmashastra

, 49

Dictionary of Business

, 52

Distributive justice, ethical theory of

, 66

corporate executive action

, 65

differences

, 64

Egalitarianism

, 65

equality of opportunity

, 65

executive action

, 65

inequalities

, 65

“justice principles”

, 66

libertarian ethic

, 65

principles

, 64

problems

, 64

procedural justice

, 65

Dodd-Fran financial regulations

, 265

Do-it-yourself tax reform

, 256

Dot-Com Bubble

, 249

Dotcom crash

, 205

Double agency

, 250

Drone technology

, 232

DVD-by-mail service

, 253

Dynamic complexity

, 84

Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)

, 208

Earnings per share (EPS)

, 18, 251

EBIT. See Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)

EBITDA

calculation

, 212

credit rating agencies

, 208

debt-to-equity ratio (D/E)

, 209

declining debt/EBITDA ratio

, 209

depreciation and amortization

, 208

earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)

, 208

financial performance

, 208

interest coverage ratio (ICR)

, 208

long-term debt to capitalization ratio

, 209

misconception

, 208

noncash expenses

, 213

non-GAAP measure

, 212

E-Commerce in India

, 122–124

Economic chaos, market turbulence and

, 18–19

Economies, emergence tracking

, 13–18

The Economist

, 192

Economy

, 18

Egalitarianism

, 65

Electrosteel

, 190–191

Embezzlement

, 165

Employee relationships management (ERM)

, 52

Employee rights and duties

, 68

Employment

, 28, 65, 71, 199, 230, 247

Enron

, 19, 158–159

bankruptcy

, 179

corporate fraud

, 155–157

scandal

, 249

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

, 22

Environmental turbulence

, 11

EPS. See Earnings per share (EPS)

Equality of opportunity

, 65

Equipment leasing

, 170

Equity crowd-funding

, 244–246

Equity Recourse Note (ERN)

, 206

ERM. See Employee relationships management (ERM)

ERN. See Equity Recourse Note (ERN)

“Escalation” fallacy

, 235

Essar Steel

, 190–191

Ethical behaviors

, 57

Ethical compliance

, 44

Ethical conformance

, 52, 68

Ethical goodness (dharma)

, 77

Ethicality

, 51–52, 267

Ethical theories

, 58

Ethics

business ethics, and corporate ethics

, 56–57

corporate failure in

, 180

EBITDA

, 208–209

promoter dominance in modern corporations

, 198–200

Ethics Resource Center

, 47

“European brotherhood”

, 44

European Coal and Steel Community

, 44

European Economic Community by Treaty of Rome (1957)

, 44

“Everyday low price” strategy

, 111

Executive action

, 64

Exercitant

, 50

Expanding consumption

, 132

“Expert systems”

, 221–222

Facebook

, 252

Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)

, 21

FECS. See Free enterprise capitalist system (FECS)

FECS-based corporation

, 247–248

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

, 174

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

, 35

Feedback concept

causal–effect influence

, 83

circular or dynamic influence

, 84

conventional linear methods

, 85

dynamic complexity

, 84

financial crisis

, 85

financial market

, 85

mechanisms

, 144

positive or negative

, 83

problem, identification and solution

, 84

processes, reinforcing and balancing

, 86–88

reciprocal influence

, 84

traditional linear influence

, 83

wicked problems

, 84

Felicity

, 128

“Fifth-generation” project

, 221

Financial companies

, 96, 97

Financial crisis

, 82, 85

Financial instruments

, 120

Financial market crisis

, 120

Financial number game

, 19

Financial shenanigans

, 19

Financial stress

, 113

Financial wealth

, 201

Flipkart

, 122–124, 252, 254

FMCG. See Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG)

Forbes Magazine (2002)

, 19

Forex scandal

, 249

Forrester, American market research company

, 226

Fortune Magazine (2002)

, 19

“Forward buying”

, 110

Fosters individualism

, 175

Fraud

, 161, 164–165

contemporary versions of

, 161–162

corruption and bribery, distinguishing between

, 183

failure of corporate accountability

, 179

investigating

, 162–165

legal and occupational ambiguity

, 180–186

supply and demand side of

, 181–182

synonyms or equivalents

, 163

turbulent markets combating

, 177–179

Fraudulent practices

, 250

Freedom from tyranny

, 133

Free enterprise capitalist system (FECS)

, 82, 101, 121, 136

assumptions of

, 130–131

corporate executives

, 11

corporate morality, interrelationships for identifying

, 91–92

corporate strategies to revitalize

, 142–143

in defense of

, 129–133

destruction of

, 155–188

dimensions

, 88

language of interrelationships

, 89

SOPE

, 89–90

stakeholders

, 8

“system at unrest”

, 89–90

systems thinking

, 88

Free markets

, 125

capitalism

, 132

system

, 136

Friction-free economy

, 260

A Future that Works: Automation, Employment and Productivity

, 231

Gap

, 47

General Motors

, 260

Geneva-based International Organization for Migration

, 23

Global buying power

, 13

Global climate change and policies

Brundtland Commission’s Report

, 21

“clean and green” products

, 21

corporate sustainability

, 21

innovative policies

, 21

intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs)

, 21

Paris Committee of Climate Change

, 21

Paris Summit Agreement

, 22

sustainability policies

, 21

sustainable development

, 21

Global employment

, 13

Globalization

, 11, 24, 30, 74, 100, 177

Global warming and resource depletion

, 24

Grameen Bank

, 121–122

Gray area in corporate ethics

, 68–69

Great by Choice (2011)

, 34, 178

Gross domestic product (GDP)

, 13

G20 summit

, 24

Harshavardhana

, 77

High-potential startups

, 252

Hobbesian capitalism

, 127–128

Hollinger International

, 19

Home Depot

, 47

Home mortgage lenders

, 112

Hotel Airbnb

, 252

Humanoid robot Sophia

, 26

Hybrid financial instruments

, 205–207

Hyderabad-based Advanced Data Research Institute

, 219

Immigrant populations and global refugee crisis

corporate ethics

, 23

ethical and moral issues

, 25

Geneva-based International Organization for Migration

, 23

globalization

, 24

global warming and resource depletion

, 24

G20 summit

, 24

international asylum immigration crisis

, 44

market turbulence

, 25

migration

, 24

Inclusive capitalism

definition

, 145–146

and intentional public policies

, 146–147

poverty alleviation

, 146

privatizing public services

, 145

INDCs. See Intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs)

Indian economy

, 20

Industrial codes of conduct

, 68

Inequalities

, 64

Inequity and inequality

, 234

Information and communication technologies (ICTs)

, 146–147

Information asymmetry (IA)

, 34, 39

Inherent social contradictions of capitalism

, 175–176

Initial public offerings (IPOs)

, 264

Injustice

, 66

Innovative policies

, 21

Inquiry into the Causes of Economic Growth: The Wealth of Nations, An

, 120

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India

, 196

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC 2016)

, 195

Intellectual property rights and duties

, 68

Intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs)

, 21

Intentional public policies and inclusive capitalism

, 146–147

Interest coverage ratio (ICR)

, 208

Internal Advisory Committee (IAC)

, 191

International asylum immigration crisis

, 44

International Federation of Robotics

, 231

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

, 188

“Internet of things (IOTs)”

, 217

Inverting

, 257

Investment

, 201

Invisible hand

, 129

The Journal of Business Ethics

, 161

“Justice principles”

, 66

Kautilya’s Arthashastra

, 49, 78

Kiva Robotics LLC in 2012

, 223

Kmart

, 47

Knowledge development

, 12

and cycle time performance

, 13

Knowledge-intensive industries

, 40

Law compliance

, 52

Laws, corporate ethics

, 69

“Leadership dharma”

, 49

Legal and occupational ambiguity

, 180–186

Legal compliance

, 68

Legality

, 52–53, 266

Legality, ethicality, morality, and spirituality (LEMS)

, 74–75, 218, 230–239

Leverage

, 98, 110

The Leviathan (1651)

, 127

Levi-Strauss

, 47

Libertarian ethic

, 65

Lie

, 164

Limited capital expenditures (Capex)

, 253

Linear thinking

, 100

Long-term debt to capitalization ratio

, 209

Long-termism

, 261–262

Low-cost goods

, 35

Machiavellian executive

, 176

Machiavellianism

, 176

Machine intelligence (MI)

, 215, 219

Machine learning

, 230

and big data

, 232

Mana, AI platform

, 223

Management literature

, 43

Managerial ethics

, 54–56

Man-made wicked problems

, 33

Market capitalism, ethical defenses of

, 152

Market orientation

, 44

Market responsiveness

, 44

Market stabilization

, 178

Market turbulence

, 1

artificial intelligence (AI)

, 25–26

Brexit and global market turbulence

, 22–23

as buyer–seller information asymmetry

, 34–40

corporate growth source

, 42–43

decision-making

, 12

definition

, 12–13

demonetization in India and

, 27–34

and economic chaos

, 18–19

ethical concerns

, 43

global climate change and policies

, 21–22

global markets, Chinese invasion of

, 21–22

immigrant populations and global refugee crisis

, 23–25

Massive corporate fraud

, 120

McDonald’s

, 47

Meditation

, 50

Microsoft Launches “Tay”

, 216

Migration

, 24

Misleading

, 163

Misrepresentation

, 164

Modern Debt-Stressed Corporation

, 192–194

Moral engagement

, 52

Morality

, 51, 57–58, 69, 79, 267

promoter dominance

, 200–203

tax subsidy and debt distortion

, 203–205

Moral obedience

, 68

Myntra

, 122–124

Narratives

, 58

NASDAQ markets

, 161

National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)

, 190–191

Natural intelligence (NI)

, 215, 217

Netflix

, 253

Net worth (NW)

, 18

Neural networks

, 26, 222

New product introductions

, 44

New product outcomes

, 44

New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

, 161

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) market

, 112

Nia, integrated AI platform

, 223

Nicomachean Ethics

, 66

Nike

, 47

NMRKT

, 256

Noncash expenses

, 213

Non-GAAP measure

, 212

Nonphysical transactional abuses

, 165, 168–169, 183

Nonproductive assets (NPAs)

, 111

NPDD

, 261–262

Oaktree Capital Management

, 265

Obfuscation

, 163

Off balance-sheet financing

, 263

Oil and gas schemes

, 170

Online capitalism

, 122–124

Organizational ethics cultures

, 33

Organizational learning

, 44

Organizational memory

, 12, 44

Organizational value ethics

, 67

Otto, self-driving automobiles startup

, 223

Our Common Future

, 21

Overhanging

, 205, 207

Overleveraged corporate debt

, 207

Overstocked inventories

, 112

Ownership, change in

, 261

Paris Committee of Climate Change

, 21

Paris Summit Agreement

, 22

“Parity products”

, 132

Parmalat

, 19

Partner relations management (PRM)

, 52

Patent rights and duties

, 68

“Permanence” campaign

, 23

Persephone Brewing Company (PBC)

, 244–246

Personal security

, 68

P&G

, 110–111

Physical transactional abuses

, 165, 166–167

Pleasure (kama)

, 77

Political regulation and watchdog control

, 13

Poverty

, 177

Presidency Towns Insolvency Act (1909)

, 195

Price–earnings (P/E) ratios

, 18

Prime-bank schemes

, 170

Private property morality

, 126–127

Procedural justice

, 65–66

Process mapping and systems thinking

, 82–83

Procrastination

, 112

Product complexity

, 39

Product quality orientation

, 44

Professional knowledge-intensive service industries

, 35

Profits and losses morality

, 133–134

Promissory notes

, 170

Promoter dominance

, 250–251

ethics, in modern corporations

, 198–200

morality

, 200–203

Promoters as investors

, 202–203

Protestant Ethic

, 134

Public outrage and humiliation

, 28

Public sector unit (PSU) banks

, 192

Punjab National Bank

, 249

Purusharthas

, 77

Pygmalion effect

, 87

Quality improvement

, 83

Quality signals

, 39

Quarterly capitalism

, 248–249

Rajarshi

, 50

Rajasic guna (energizing power)

, 77

Ramifications

, 28

Raytheon

, 258

Real estate business

, 28

Real estate developers

, 112

Regulations

, 249

Reinforcement learning

, 230

Reinforcing feedback loop

, 86

Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

, 27

Returns on assets (ROA)

, 18

Returns on equity (ROE)

, 18

Returns on invested capital (ROIC)

, 108

Returns on investment (ROI)

, 18

Returns on sales (ROS)

, 108

Revenues

, 28

1992 Rio Earth Summit

, 22

Rise of the Robots

, 230

Risk, demonetization in India

, 27

Risk management

, 44

Robotics

artificial intelligence (AI) and

, 218

in radiosurgery

, 223

Robotics 1972

, 221

Robots

, 25

Round-trip

, 19

“Round-trip” trading

, 174

Routine and nonroutine labor force

, 230

Routine transactional operations, AI

, 237

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002)

, 6, 47, 161, 180, 251, 265

Sattwa guna (or vigilance power)

, 77

School of Salamanca

, 126, 152

S corporation

, 268

Seduction

bribery or corruption

, 165

deception

, 164

definition

, 164

embezzlement

, 165

fraud

, 164–165

lie

, 164–165

misrepresentation

, 164

nonphysical transactional abuses

, 168–169

physical transactional abuses

, 166–167

“superior knowledge”

, 164

SeedInvest

, 254

Self-driving Uber cars

, 223

Self-fulfilling prophecy

, 87, 113

“Sell/buyback” trading

, 174

The Shame of the Cities

, 77

Share buybacks

, 251

Shareholder-value revolution

, 248

Share market concentration

, 201–203

Shell Oil

, 47

Short-termism. See Quarterly capitalism

Sick Industrial Companies Act (SICA)

, 207

Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Repeal Act (2003)

, 195

Smartphones

, 224

1980s massive public sector investment in AI

, 221

Smith, Adam

, 128–129

Snapdeal

, 252

“Snapshot thinking”

, 99

Social compliance

, 68

Social Darwinism

, 176

Social entrepreneurship

, 262

Socioeconomic problems

, 33

Sophia, female robot

, 216

SOX Act

, 6, 47, 161, 180

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556)

, 50

Spirituality

, 50, 70, 226, 267

bonding and binding spirit

, 49

Buddhist tradition

, 49

“categorical imperatives”

, 49

civilizations

, 49

dharma

, 49

dharmashastra

, 49

exercitant

, 50

“image and likeness of God”

, 49

Kautilya’s Arthashastra

, 49

“leadership dharma”

, 49

meditation

, 50

purusharthas

, 77

rajarshi

, 50

Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556)

, 50

Spiritual transcendence (moksha)

, 77

Startups

, 252–253, 262

State capitalism

, 126

Stocking up

, 110

Stock market indices

, 18

Strategic thinking

, 139

Stressed assets

, 196

Subjects, objects, properties, and events (SOPE)

, 80, 162

Subterfuge

, 163

“Success to the successful” archetype

, 111

Sunshine Coast Association for Community Living (SCACL)

, 244

“Superior knowledge”

, 164

Supervised learning

, 230

Supply chain management

, 12

Supply chains

, 28–29

Sustainability policies

, 21

Sustainable competitive advantage (SCA)

, 12

Sustainable development

, 21

Symptomatic solutions

, 104–106

Systemic laws for systems thinking

, 93–101

Systems thinking approach

, 80, 81

archetypes of, See Archetypes of systems thinking

corporate ethics, critical systems thinking questions

, 90–115

feedback concept

, 83–86

feedback processes, reinforcing and balancing

, 86–88

free enterprise capitalism system (FECS)

, 88–89, 136

market turbulence problem

, 81–82

and process mapping

, 82–83

system

, 80–81

“systems dynamics”

, 81

Tangible products

, 39

Tax Reform Act of 1986

, 257

Tax reforms

, 256–257

Tax subsidy and debt distortion

advantages

, 204

corporate financial decisions

, 203–204

debt subsidy

, 203–204

disadvantages

, 205

principal

, 203

tax benefits

, 203–204

Technology/capital-intensive services

, 35

Teleology, ethical theory of

, 58–63

Territorial tax systems

, 257

Tesla

, 260

Tesla Motors

, 229

The Tiananmen Square massacre

, 112

Total quality management (TQM)

, 83

“Tragedy of commons”

, 108–110

Transactions exchange-based management curriculum

, 237

Transport sector, demonetization in India

, 28–29

Treaty of Lisbon

, 22

Treaty of Paris (1951)

, 44

Trickery

, 163

Turbulent market stabilization and market sustainability

, 137–138

Tweed Days in St. Louis

, 77

Uber

, 103, 106, 253

Uncertainty

, 31–32

Underinvestment

, 113–114

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

, 21

Unscrupulous brokers

, 170

Unstructured problems

, 31

Unsupervised learning

, 230

Utilitarianism

, 58, 63

Values, corporate ethics

behavior and

, 54

ethical deliberations

, 53–54

honesty

, 54

human dignity

, 54

inalienability

, 54

levels

, 53–54

moral principles

, 54

Venture capitalist (VC) firms

, 252

Virtual reality (VR)

, 226

Virtue ethics

, 71

Vizio

, 252

Volkswagen scandal

, 201

Vulnerabilities

, 93

WABOT-1

, 221

Wal-Mart

, 21, 47, 110–111

Wanton AI developments

, 223–224

Wash trades

, 170

Wash trading

, 19, 174

Watkins, Sherron

, 158–160

Watson, self-learning AI tool

, 223

Waymo, Google self-driving car

, 223, 224

Wealth and power (artha)

, 77

Wealth distribution

, 201–202

Weber, Max

capitalism, ethics of

, 134–135

Welfare capitalism

, 126

based on taxing

, 135–136

dependence culture

, 135

WeWork

, 252, 254

WhatsApp

, 252

Wholesale power traders

, 19

Wicked problems

, 32, 84, 95

World.com

, 19

World Trade Organization (WTO)

, 259

XCON

, 222

Zero-sum game cycle

, 111

Zinnov

, 252

Z scores

, 211–212