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A Composite Strategy for the Legal and Ethical Use of Data Mining

by Brett Landry

International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning, 1(1), 27–43

Dinah Payne
University of New Orleans, USA

Brett J. L. Landry
University of Dallas, USA

An increasingly popular business practice, data mining provides or the extraction of information from existing data to... more An increasingly popular business practice, data mining provides or the extraction of information from existing data to identify trends such as consumer purchasing practices and can foster greater efficiency in companies’ marketing efforts. There are corresponding costs associated with data mining, as well. The most difficult issue surrounding data mining is that of individual
privacy rights and the costs associated with the potential alteration of ‘traditional’ privacy rights. This paper seeks to review basic definitional information on data mining and provide a strategy for companies’ successful, meaningful and ethical use of data mining as presented for meaningful knowledge
generation.

Keywords: management, learning, knowledge, data mining, text mining, privacy, ethics, strategy

Perverse effects of other-referenced performance goals in an information exchange context

by Nico W. Van Yperen

Natural Law Internalism

by Thom Brooks

Published in Thom Brooks (ed.), Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012, pp. 167-79.

Keywords:

natural law internalism;theories of natural law externalism;Hegel's natural law... more Keywords:

natural law internalism;theories of natural law externalism;Hegel's natural law internalism;classical natural law;natural law of standard of justice, on reason;“true law” universally and eternally true;modern natural law theories;Hegel's understanding of natural law;Hegel's legal philosophy, natural law;novel reinvention of natural law

Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:

Introduction

Classical Natural Law

Modern Natural Law

Hegel's Natural Law Internalism

Natural Law Internalism or Externalism?

Conclusion

Notes

References

2012, « The Historicity of the Neoliberal State », in Social Anthropology, volume 20, n° 1, pp. 80-94

by Mathieu Hilgers

Debate with Loic Wacquant “Three Steps to a Historical Anthropology of Actually Existing Neoliberalism." Social Anthropology, 20, 1, with responses in the next issue: Jamie Peck, Nick Theodore, and Neil Brenner, Stephen Collier, Daniel Goldstein, Johanna Bockman, Don Kalb...

Access and Benefit Sharing Systems: An Overview of the Issues and the Regulation

by Tafadzwa Mazonde

Slavery and Colonialism: The Worst Terrorism on Africa

by Mohamed Eno

Co-authored with Omar A. Eno, Mohamed H. Ingiriis, and Jamal M. Haji; Published in African Renaissance, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2012.

Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is... more Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is the axis of evil and devastation of mankind. However, the deliberate use of the term terrorism in recent decades was carefully selected, mainly, against a certain religion (Islam). The idea was then globally politicized by the Western world. Leaving that scholarly view in its own right, we disagree with the opinion raising terrorism as the devil’s just-born child of evil, when in reality Africans had been terrorized for centuries as slaves and human chattel. Hence the basis for the concept of this thesis: conceptualizing the episode of ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorist’ from the broader perspective of its practice from the Middle Passage or the Atlantic Slave Trade. To portray that argument and broaden the scope of the debate over this critically sensitive subject, we divided the discussion into three sections: an examination of what constitutes terrorism and terrorist; history of terrorism and terrorists from an Africa perspective; and the ideological constraints within the subject of terrorism as practiced by the US and its Western allies.

Competence Management in High-Technology Organizations

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M. (2011). Competence management in high-technology organizations. Canadian Manager, 36(1), 21 – 22.

The Neurobiology of Experience: Memory-Prediction and Its Role in the Management Decision-Making Process

by Matthew Jelavic

Jelavic, M., & Vincenti, M. (2012). The Neurobiology of Experience: Memory-Prediction and Its Role in the Management Decision-Making Process. Canadian Manager, 36(4), 26 – 27.

Social Entrepreneurship: A Necessary Mind-Set by: Hamza El Fasiki

by Hamza El Fasiki

Hamza El Fasiki is a published author at uPublish.info

Hamza El Fasiki is the author of "Social Entrepreneurship: Meaning, Challenges, and Strategies" (LAP 2011). In 2010 he participated in the "Study of the U.S. Institute" program (SUSI) on social entrepreneurship at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. For the moment, he is preparing a Master in "Cultural Studies" at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University of Fez, Morocco. He is conducting a research on the cultural bases in the entrepreneurial activity in Morocco.

Article Summary: Throughout recent history, social entrepreneurship has marked an extraordinary imprint in the world... more Article Summary: Throughout recent history, social entrepreneurship has marked an extraordinary imprint in the world of business. The Idea of social entrepreneurship is a new emerging field of business operations where entrepreneurs combine the excitement or passion of social mission with business-like ventures. It is because of those joint genes that social entrepreneurship is a very new concept that needs more understanding. As a result, necessary attention is required toward a global understanding of the field and its philosophy. Social entrepreneurs become a critical syndrome for social change.

Modes of Social Entrepreneurial Actions: MicroCredit at the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid by: Hamza El Fasiki

by Hamza El Fasiki

Hamza El Fasiki is a published author at uPublish.info

Hamza El Fasiki is the author of "Social Entrepreneurship: Meaning, Challenges, and Strategies" (LAP 2011). In 2010 he participated in the "Study of the U.S. Institute" program (SUSI) on social entrepreneurship at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. For the moment, he is preparing a Master in "Cultural Studies" at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University of Fez, Morocco. He is conducting a research on the cultural bases in the entrepreneurial activity in Morocco.

Article Summary: Throughout recent history, social entrepreneurship has marked an extraordinary imprint in the world... more Article Summary: Throughout recent history, social entrepreneurship has marked an extraordinary imprint in the world of business. The Idea of social entrepreneurship is a new emerging field of business operations where entrepreneurs combine the excitement or passion of social mission with business-like ventures. It is because of those joint genes that social entrepreneurship is a very new concept that needs more understanding. As a result, necessary attention is required toward a global understanding of the field and its philosophy. Social entrepreneurs become a critical syndrome for social change.

The Right to Work in the European Convention on Human Rights

by Rory O'Connell

[2012] European Human Rights Law Review 176-190

The European Convention on Human Rights does not explicitly protect the right to work; nevertheless the ECHR case law... more The European Convention on Human Rights does not explicitly protect the right to work; nevertheless the ECHR case law protects aspects of this right. The paper summarises the content of the right to work and then demonstrates how the case law protects aspects of it. Article 8 can be used to protect the right to seek employment, while Articles 6 and 8 can be used to combat unfair dismissal. Other ECHR Articles prohibit discrimination. The paper concludes with some suggestions as to how to develop this trend in the case law. First, Article 8 should be recognised as protecting the negative aspects of the right to work. Second, the relationship between Article 8 and Article 14 needs clarification. Third, there is scope to develop positive obligations in relation to the right to work

Criminals or Patients? Towards a Tragic Conception of Moral and Legal Responsibility

by Mark Coeckelbergh

Softening culture, opening Europe: The European Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue

by Jeff Katcherian

Korematsu v United States; a basic judgement analysis in light of Hart's legal positivism, Finnis' natural law, and Critical Race Theory

by Jim Saxton

Legal and Social Theory Essay - 2011 - Sheffield Hallam University

This case study is on the subject of Korematsu v United States and will analyse the dissenting judgements, especially... more This case study is on the subject of Korematsu v United States and will analyse the dissenting judgements, especially the favoured opinion of Justice Black (and Justice Frankfurter), against those who opposed (Justice Roberts, Justice Murphy and Justice Jackson) and critique them in light of three schools of jurisprudence; Hart’s approach on legal positivism, Finnis and Natural Law and Critical Race Theory.

Les codes de conduite: source du droit global?

by Gregory Lewkowicz

Co-authored with Benoît Frydman, forthcomin in Les sources du droit revisitées, 2013

La doctrine récente en théorie et en philosophie du droit examine depuis plusieurs années les transformations du droit... more La doctrine récente en théorie et en philosophie du droit examine depuis plusieurs années les transformations du droit dans la mondialisation à partir de l’hypothèse de la formation d’un droit global. Les codes de conduites constitueraient un élément typique de ce droit global naissant. 

Confrontés au phénomène massif de multiplication des codes de conduite, considéré comme extérieur au droit, selon la théorie et les critères classiques des normes juridiques, mais qui évolue pourtant en interaction sinon en concurrence avec lui, les auteurs examinent dans cette contribution le problème des rapports entre codes de conduite et sources du droit. Ce problème se décline en deux questions distinctes, mais complémentaires, qui sont traitées successivement. Premièrement, les codes de conduite constituent-ils ou seraient-ils susceptibles de constituer une source formelle du droit et, dans l’affirmative, laquelle ? S’agit-il d’une source spécifique, sui generis, ou peut-on finalement la ramener à des sources connues comme la convention, l’usage ou d’autres solutions encore ? Deuxièmement, dans quelle mesure les codes de conduite nous invitent-ils à repenser la théorie des sources, à éventuellement modifier ou compléter notre compréhension de ce concept, voire, et c’est vers cette option plus radicale que les auteurs inclinent, à remettre en cause la pertinence de la notion de « sources du droit », sa capacité à rendre compte d’un phénomène normatif, qui s’inscrit dans une logique qui fondamentalement différente de l’approche du droit par les sources ?

Vulnerability and the basis of business ethics: from fiduciary duties to professionalism

by Eric Brown

forthcoming in Journal of Business Ethics

This paper examines the role of vulnerability in the basis of business ethics by criticizing its role in giving a... more This paper examines the role of vulnerability in the basis of business ethics by criticizing its role in giving a morally substantial character to fiduciary duties to shareholders. The target is Alexei Marcoux's (2003) argument for morally substantial fiduciary duties vis-à-vis the multifiduciary stakeholder theory. Rather than proceed to support the stakeholder paradigm, a conception of vulnerability is combined with Joseph Heath's (2004) "market failure" view of the ethical obligations of managers as falling out of their roles as professionals involved in the institution of the market. The
result is the core of a theoretically defensible and managerially motivating and deployable ethic.

Universal and Guaranteed Income? A Matter of Basic Rights / Reddito garantito ed universale? E' questione di diritti fondamentali

by Emanuele Murra

Answer to the Call for Interventions for a guarantee income by Bin Italia.
http://bin-italia.org/ year 2012
Contributo al dibattito dopo l'appello alla presa di parola per un reddito garantito lanciato dal Bin Italia
http://www.bin-italia.org/ year 2012

EN
The idea of a regular income that allows people to plan and fulfil a life project is a certainly linked to the... more EN
The idea of a regular income that allows people to plan and fulfil a life project is a certainly linked to the topic of job markets reform. However, these two issues do not overlap. The reform of job contracts, new economic incentives, liberalization and tax exemptions can make the job market more efficient, but all these tools can not resolve the issue of effective risk of insecurity and irregularity in personal incomes.

Guaranteeing incomes is not the same than guaranteeing jobs: if the issue of income security involves the workers, the precariat, the unemployed, all the young men and women looking for their first job, it does not concern them as workers but as citizens. Or, to put it more precisely, as people with fundamental rights.

All humans, as biological beings, bear unavoidable material needs like [...]


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Il tema della garanzia al reddito è certamente legato a quello del mercato del lavoro e della sua riforma, ma non ci si può illudere che coincida con esso. La modifica delle forme contrattuali, gli incentivi economici, le liberalizzazioni e le defiscalizzazioni, anche quando portassero ad un più efficiente mercato del lavoro, non risolverebbero comunque la questione della sempre possibile intermittenza del reddito.

La garanzia del reddito non è perfettamente sovrapponibile alla garanzia del posto di lavoro e, pur interessando lavoratori, disoccupati, ragazzi e ragazze in cerca di prima occupazione, essa non li riguarda come semplici lavoratori o aspiranti tali, ma in quanto cittadini, o più precisamente, in quanto persone titolari di diritti fondamentali.

Qualunque persona umana, in quanto essere biologico, è portatrice di ineludibili bisogni materiali [...]

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Bento, Paulo (2009), “Por oceanos nunca dantes navegados”, INVEST, I. 50, Mar., p. 36.

by Paulo Bento

Bento, Paulo (2011), “Na senda de uma nova (con)vivência”, Economia Global e Gestão, V. 16, I. 3, p. 4.

by Paulo Bento

Bento, Paulo (2011), “In the wake of a new (co)existence”, Global Economics and Management Review, V. 16, I. 3, p. 5.

by Paulo Bento