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Money is one of the most mysterious cultural inventions at all. Far from being a mere means of exchange, it is at the same time a carrier of power, which can be precisely distributed in monetary economies only, instead of violent struggle and bloodsheds in traditional societies. Money looses human ties, but widens at the same time efficient freedom of every individual. It is not a special sort of goods, as gold or silver was, but sublimates gradually to fiduciary money up to electronic accounts. Thus, it can be perhaps best understood as a sort of institutionalised trust, whose validity has to be incessantly confirmed in a sort of permanent plebiscite, in the daily actions of all its users.
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... required to cooperate because they have fiduciary duties to the company. Whether such fiduciary duti...
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... 243. In Germany fiduciary assignments are very frequent, especially assignme...
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This comment on the Kupper article on business ethics recounts how it says researchers should dig into the real-world problems that confront accounting, finance, and marketing, and they should eschew subjective values in favor of more scientific and empirical modes of analysis. This approach, opens new perspectives and allows for the use of logical, empirical methods and the kind of knowledge that is "familiar to business administration academics." It is agreed that business ethics in German-speaking countries should become more connected to day-to-day business problems, but not that the solution is to emphasize the empirical and the analytical aspects of research at the expense of the normative. The solution is not to ban the normative, but to "triangulate" research between normative a...
...They are insistent on the moral, fiduciary duties of managers to shareowners. Violating those...
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... the German national context, the fiat fiduciary money to safeguard a think tank's (perception of i...
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... required to cooperate because they have fiduciary duties to the company. Whether such fiduciary duti...
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..., such as establishments acting in a fiduciary capacity and. partnerships that are dealing in the...
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... the German national context, the fiat fiduciary money to safeguard a think tank's (perception of i...
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... Act of 1940), corporate governance, fiduciary duties, executive compensation, and various other ...
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This article discusses the main theoretical and conceptual challenges of defining the scope of corporate responsibilities with regard to human nghts. The article argues that it is possible to modify the human rights obligations of governments to a business context. The article then examines the methodological as well as practical limitations of existing initiatives to rewrite international human rights law for companies. Finally, the article outlines the functionality and added value of the Human Rights Compliance Assessment (HRCA) developed by the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
... positive duties would conflict with the fiduciary obligations of businesses towards their shareholde...