Beyond the biomedical and behavioural: towards an integrated approach to HIV prevention in the Southern African mining industry

Authors: Campbell, Catherine; Williams, Brian
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Social Science & Medicine
Publication Year: 1999

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While migrant labor is believed to play an important role in the dynamics of HIV-transmission in many of the countries of southern Africa, little has been written about the way in which HIV/AIDS has been dealt with in the industrial settings in which many migrant workers are employed.

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Innovation, Competition, and the Theory of Network Externalities

Author: Besen, Stanley M.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Presented at the Yale University Department of Economics Reunion, The World Economy in the 21st Century.
Publication Year: 1999

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Network externalities exist when the value of a product to any user is greater the larger is the number of other users of the same product. For economists, the theory of network effects, or network externalities, or standardization, has wide applicability...

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A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law

Authors: Blair, Margaret; Stout, Lynn A.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Journal Articles
Source: Virginia Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 248-328.
Publication Year: 1999

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Contemporary corporate scholarship generally assumes that the central economic problem addressed by corporation law is getting managers and directors to act as loyal agents for shareholders. We take issue with this approach and argue that the unique legal rules governing publicly-held corporations are instead designed primarily to address a different problem - the "team production" problem - that arises when a number of individuals must invest firm-specific resources to produce a nonseparable output...

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Sustainable Development: The Next Generation of Business Opportunity

Authors: Hedstrom, Gilbert; Poltorzycki, Stephen; Strob, Peter
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Prism, Fourth Quarter, 1998

A managerial perspective of the different approaches to sustainable development and their implications for business and the environment. Includes a discussion of business trends and best practice across several multi-national corporations.
Publication Year: 1998

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This is a managerial perspective of the different approaches to sustainable development and their implications for business and the environment.

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Public Action to Remedy Hunger

Author: Sen, Amartya
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Speeches
Source: The Hunger Project
Publication Year: 1990

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Amartya Sen argues that systematic public action can eradicate the terrible and resilient problems of starvation and hunger in the world in which we live...

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Can Ethics Be Taught?

Authors: Velasquez, Manuel; Andre, Claire; Shanks, Thomas; Meyer, Michael
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Publication Year: 1987

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In a recent editorial, the Wall Street Journal announced that ethics courses are useless because ethics can't be taught.

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The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits

Author: Friedman, Milton
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Speeches
Source: The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.
Publication Year: 1970

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"When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the "social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise system," it's obvious that they believe that they are defending free enterprise

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The Tragedy of the Commons

Author: Hardin, Garrett
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers; Journal Articles
Source: Science, 162, 1968
Publication Year: 1968

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In economic affairs, The Wealth of Nations (1776) popularized the "invisible hand," the idea that an individual who "intends only his own gain," is, as it were, "led by an invisible hand to promote… the public interest."

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A New View of Society, Or, Essays on the Principle of the Formation of the Human Character, and the Application of the Principle to Practice

Author: Owen, Robert
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source:
Publication Year: 1816

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Robert Owen founded New Lanark, a Scottish cotton mill town he started as a model utopian community. Owen saw the town as a demonstration of the ways in which the evils of poverty, social disadvantage and ignorance could be overcome through imaginative education, fair discipline, regular work, good housing and health care.

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The Value of ESOPs in Engineering Firms

Author: Roback, Thomas, Jr.
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2012

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While all kinds of businesses become employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) companies, there is a large percentage of engineering firms that have chosen the ESOP structure. Why so?

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