Business ethics and systems thinking

Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics

This paper argues that CSR, as a business, governance and ethics system, has failed. This assumes that success or failure is measured in terms of the net impact (positive or negative) of business on society and the environment. The paper contends that a different kind of CSR is needed if we are to reverse the current direction of many of the world’s most pressing social, environmental and ethic...

Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics

This research focuses on who controls shareholder’s wealth maximization and how does this affect firm’s performance in publicly quoted non-financial companies in Nigeria. The shareholder fund was the dependent while explanatory variables were firm size (proxied by log of turnover), retained earning (representing management control) and dividend payment (representing measure of shareholders cont...

Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics

The adoption of e-government and effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has the potential to yield significant benefits in the developing countries. This study investigates strategies to advance the use of ICT in the public sector in developing countries, with the aim of improving services and outcomes for government and citizens. A multi-level framework for analysis ...

Ethics and Critical Thinking

Ethics of autonomous information systems towards an artificial thinking

Projects, situated in the crossroads of the cognitive sciences, the neurosciences, the computing and robotics currently concern the creation of autonomous artificial beings capable of thinking. This article presents a model of comparison of the human thinking with a numerical thinking that relies on four hierarchies: the classification of information systems, the cognitive pyramid, the linguist...