Care Ethics and Business Management (2)
Are you a caring manager? Do you work for a caring company? This post may help answer these and related questions. It follows the first post, which outlined the ethics of care.
The relationship between business management and care ethics goes back a relatively long time but in a relatively silent way. The early, and to this day probably the most significant context, for care ethics in business focuses on stakeholder theory within the more general context of corporate governance.
Introduction
Care ethics challenges the neoclassical understanding of business. Friedman promulgated the principle that business organizations should focus solely on increasing shareholder value.… Read the rest
Political Polarization and COVID-19 Avoidance (1B)
The first post in this series on political polarization and the COVID-19 pandemic. It focused on the reactions of right-wing populism toward public health guidelines that recommended various ways to combat the spread of the coronavirus. I then noted that I thought the research did not pay enough attention to the communication and information ecology played in explaining the behavior of right-wing populists. Since that post, several very recent papers deal with issues related to the first paper. I highlight three papers that flesh out the analysis contained in the first post.
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