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Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand

For reasons of both electoral competitiveness and democratic legitimacy, political parties in diverse democracies increasingly compete for the votes of immigrant and ethnic minority voters. A ... ethnic minority voters, with consequences for their political inclusion and representation. We examine how these questions have been answered in New Zealand, a country characterised by high rates of inward

Totally Administered Heteronomy: Adorno on Work, Leisure, and Politics in the Age of Digital Capitalism

developments of the culture industry have paved the way for entertainment products to dominate us; and political discourse, in which social media has exacerbated the anti-democratic tendencies Adorno warned of ... and (or as) political philosophy . Business Ethics Quarterly , 20 ( 3 ), 427 - 452 . Heins , V. ( 2007 ). Critical theory and the traps of conspiracy thinking . Philosophy and Social Criticism , 33 ( 7

Lying and Cheating the Company: The Positive and Negative Effects of Corporate Activism on Unethical Consumer Behavior

studies, we show that the effect of corporate activism on unethical behavior is moderated by consumers’ political ideology and mediated by desire for punishment. When the company’s activism stand is ... company's activism stand is [incongruent/ congruent] with the consumer's political ideology, consumers experience [increased/decreased] desire to punish the company, thereby [increasing/decreasing] unethical

The Ethics of Freedom in Consumption: An Ethnographic Account of the Social Dimensions of Supermarket Shopping for Moroccan Women

This research brings together insights from philosophy, political theory, and consumer research in conceptualizing and empirically examining the social dimension of negative and positive freedom in ... reviewing previous work in philosophy, political theory, and consumer research on the distinctions between positive and negative freedom, with special attention to their manifestation in the retail

A Rawlsian Rule for Corporate Governance

corporate-centric perspective, as shown by recent efforts (especially Singer in Bus Ethics Q 25(1):65–92, 2015) to situate corporate conduct within Rawls’ political theory. Although Rawls was largely mute on ... this view, whether a decision is normatively proper depends on the wider business and political context (Martin, 2013) .2 This takes us into the domain of political philosophy and opens the door to

Strengthening Our Cities: Exploring the Intersection of Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion, and Social Innovation in Revitalizing Urban Environments

, political and corporate leadership, and depth of community grounding in ethical principles, it is possible. In this editorial essay, we summarize the contributions of each of these papers to this important ... the right policies (Wu et al., 2023) , political leadership (Stajkovic & Stajkovic, 2023) , corporate leadership (Devine et al., 2023) , and depth of community grounding in ethical principles

How Culture Displaced Structural Reform: Problem Definition, Marketization, and Neoliberal Myths in Bank Regulation

culture and reform at the organizational level. We consider four overlapping subsystems in which this shift in problem–solution clusters played out—political, regulatory, legal, and consulting—and show that ... ,”  which was initially strong and publicly prominent in the political arena, lost attention. Over time it was displaced by a neoliberal managerialist turn, which watered down or abandoned structural

A Dilemma of Self-interest vs. Ethical Responsibilities in Political Insider Trading

Political insider trading has brought substantial attention to ethical considerations in the academic literature. While the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act prohibits members of ... members of Congress and their staff from leveraging nonpublic information to make investment decisions, political insider trading still prevails. We discuss political ethics and social contract theory to re

The Political Ontology of Corporate Social Responsibility: Obscuring the Pluriverse in Place

This article examines corporate social responsibility (CSR) through the lens of political ontology. We contend that CSR is not only a discursive mean of legitimization but an inherently ontological ... studies on political philosophy . Science, Technology, and Human Values , 16 ( 1 ), 3 - 19 . Latour , B. ( 2005 ). Re-assembling the social: An introduction to ActorNetwork Theory . Oxford University Press

A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Entrepreneurs’ Gender on their Access to Bank Finance

women entrepreneurs’ (vis-à-vis men entrepreneurs’) access to bank finance. Specifically, we theorize how women’s formal (their nations’ political ideologies) and informal (women’s empowerment) social ... entrepreneurs' loan applications. Women entrepreneurs also pay higher interest rates on loans than men entrepreneurs. Further, in societies dominated by a conservative (rather than a liberal) political ideology

Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate

With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong ... contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio‑political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are

Spheres of Influence: A Walzerian Approach to Business Ethics

Michael Walzer is one of the most distinguished political philosophers and social critics of this century. His ideas have had great import and influence in political philosophy and political ... Walzer's work provides an important conceptual canvas for business ethics scholars that has not been adequately explored. Scholars in business ethics often borrow from political theory and philosophy to

Is It Freedom? The Coming About of the EU Directive on Whistleblower Protection

understand concrete cases of reporting wrongdoing in terms of abstract political philosophy. This paper uses a discussion between Berlin and Skinner about what negative freedom is, as a theoretical framework ... consequentialist philosophers debate over how wide or narrow that ‘area of non-interference’ should be—Berlin mentions Bentham and Mill but we could argue that much of political philosophy is a continuation of such

Markets Within the Limit of Feasibility

objections, and I leverage recent work on the nature of feasibility within political philosophy to offer a new challenge. I argue that feasibility offers a constraint on which markets can be permissibly ... relevant to when and how we should pursue market solutions. Feasibility as an object of study has only recently gained popularity within political philosophy. This article serves to introduce the work done

Revisiting the Received Image of Machiavelli in Business Ethics Through a Close Reading of The Prince and Discourses

, while pointing out that the existing ethical frameworks foisted on Machiavelli’s texts do not do justice to the political philosopher’s worldview, which are complex insights into ideas of leadership, we ... tenets of Christian political philosophy (Skinner, 1978), both Discourses (Machiavelli, (1531) 1998) and The Prince (Machiavelli, (1532, 2005)) explicitly challenge the application of Christian morality in

Assessing the Legitimacy of Corporate Political Activity: Uber and the Quest for Responsible Innovation

Building on literature in political CSR and corporate political activity (CPA) as well as responsible innovation and responsible lobbying, we introduce a framework to assess the legitimacy status of ... framework to assess the legitimacy status of corporate political activity. We focus on the fact that companies frequently face sharp regulatory backlash after penetrating markets with their innovations. In

Leading Without a Self: Implications of Buddhist Practices for Pseudo-spiritual Leadership

This paper extends Being-centered and spiritual leadership theory using non-self from the Buddhist philosophy to further our understanding of how inner life functions as the source of spiritual ... (Case & Gosling, 2010a, b) that fails to engage (Lips-Wiersma & Mills, 2014; Mabey, 2013) and acknowledge the historical and political context of SL (e.g., Nash, 2003) . For instance, most studies on

Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands

 Netherlands Fatih Goksu Arjen Leerkes Introduction A considerable academic literature in migration studies and political science seeks to identify the factors that determine whether persons with a migration ... levels, for example, are seen as evidence that ethnic minorities have acquired a considerable level of knowledge of, and access to, the domestic political system. Furthermore, the overrepresentation of

Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan

diverse socio-economic, socio-political and cultural contexts, histories of inward migration, as well as differently preferred destinations in the migration of refugees from Syria in the 2010s. The ... solidarity (Bracic, 2018; Pawlicka et al., 2019; Pedersen & Thomas, 2013; Verkuyten, 2004) , behavioural intentions (Badea et  al., 2017; Yitmen & Verkuyten, 2018) , political orientation and related

Prominent Themes and Blind Spots in Diversity and Inclusion Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis

Web of Science database and included 2510 publications. Results showed that the development of D&I literature had increased exponentially since the 1960s, mainly due to different political and societal ... corporate boards or political functions (Clayton & Zetterberg, 2018; Dobson et al., 2017) . The start of the global financial crisis lowered trust in the status quo, so research on the effects of board