Modus Vivendi Arrangements, Stability, and the All-Subjected Principle

Modus Vivendi of E-Business

This paper reports on an investigation into relationships between challenges and success factors in e-business, from the perspective of the acknowledged benefits achieved by large organizations operating within the Australian context. To enable organisations to achieve benefits from e-business, it is imperative for companies to recognise challenges before them as well as to identify critical su...

More than modus vivendi, less than overlapping consensus: towards a political theory of social compromise

Political theory often relies on a definite vision of the lack of consensus, which does not necessarily exclude the possibility of some modus vivendi. It turns out however that a mere modus vivendi is widely felt to be insufficient to warrant political stability and a well-ordered society. Starting from distributive-justice issues and problems of ethical conflict in democratic society, it is ar...

Affected and Subjected—The All-Affected Principle in Transnational Democratic Theory

Many transnational democrats support their claims for global democratic reform by appealing to the so-called all-affected principle, stating that everyone who is affected by a decision has a right to participate in making it. Although often identified as a core principle of democratic theory, the allaffected principle is difficult both to interpret and to apply. In the first part of this paper,...

Technological Diversity and Industrial Networks: An Analysis of the Modus Operandi of Co-operative Arrangements

The article discusses the institutional diversity of industrial networks, associating this diversity with the ‘complexity’ of the technological environment in which these networks are inserted. The analysis is organized in three stages. The first involves the definition of an objective criteria to map the institutional diversity of industrial networks, specifically associated with the ‘complexi...

Regulatory Arrangements, Financial Stability, and Regulatory Reform