International Journal of Social Economics: Volume 23 Issue 9

Towards the teleological understanding of economic value

Paata Leiashvily

Suggests a new understanding of the category of economic value. According to this understanding, economic value is the unity of economic utility and economic costs. Interprets…

Ethics and efficiency in organizations

Kjell Hausken

Lays out a framework for analysing ethics in organizations. Relying on methodological individualism, introduces five building blocks for the framework: self‐interest, individual…

Capitalism at the crossroads

André Slabbert

Proposes that, as a result of retrenchment and re‐engineering, unemployment is escalating to catastrophic proportions, and that specific remedial actions need to be instituted to…

Human resource management in the process of transformation of the Polish economy

Adam Szalkowski

Presents the key issues in the field of human resource management against the background of the socio‐economic system transformation in Poland. These issues concern the impact of…

How large are welfare’s work disincentives?

Alan S. Caniglia

The conventional economic analysis of welfare programmes is based on the work disincentive issue. This has become a leading justification for recent discussions of welfare reform…

Technology transfer for sustainable development: Environmentalism and entrepreneurship in Hong Kong

Maris G. Martinsons, Andy K.Y. Leung, Christine Loh

Proactive efforts are increasingly advocated to conserve scarce resources, prevent future deterioration of our natural environment and sustain economic development. The progress…