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Faith at Work: Toward a Theology of Business Administration
(2008-04-01)
The book consists of seven related essays about what faith in God means for business today. Although each is written to deliver a soulful message of its own, each serves as a chapter of a rudimentary theology for business ...
“We're Not Speaking Any More”: A Cross-Cultural Study of Intergenerational Cut-Offs
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
This study of individuals in the U.S. and Tamil Nadu, India, examines the reasons given for voluntary limitations on contact between adult children and their parents (“cut-offs”). We examine the possibly that these breeches ...
Paradox in Positive Organizational Change
(NTL Institute - Sage, 2008-03)
Positive organizational change is a paradox. On the one hand, natural human inclinations toward the positive and heliotropic tendencies foster a proclivity toward positive change in human systems. On the other hand, human ...
Giving peace a chance: organizational leadership, empowerment, and peace An earlier version of this paper was presented at an All Academy Symposium entitled ‘A role for organizations in sustainable peace’ at the 2005 National Academy of Management Meetings, August 7–10, Hawaii.
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-11)
This paper provides an exploratory look at how the leadership practices of business organizations may foster more peaceful societies. I develop the logic for positive relationships between participative organizational ...
Transnational Ties and Mental Health of Caribbean Immigrants
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2004-10)
Immigration scholars have demonstrated the increasing importance of transnational activities among contemporary immigrants. While much of the previous research has emphasized social and economic outcomes, very little ...
Changing Environmental Practice: Understanding and Overcoming the Organizational and Psychological Barriers
(Journal of Social Issues, 2005)
Since the early 1990s, the environmental management literature has grown from a small offshoot of mainstream academic study to become a vibrant field of its own. The contributions of this field lie in the study of corporations ...
A Thin Spot 1
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-12)
A “thin spot” in thinking about business endangers our human being. This article traces a change in business thinking over the last generations to note how, under the spell of the scientific method and the thrall to ...
To stay or to go: voluntary survivor turnover following an organizational downsizing
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-09)
This paper examines the relationship between survivor reactions to a downsizing and retention subsequent to a downsizing. We hypothesize that survivors who experience the downsizing as distributively, procedurally, and ...