Milton Friedman argued that the social responsibility of firms is to maximize profits. This paper examines this argument for the economic environment envisioned by Friedman in which citizens can personally give to social causes and can invest in profit-maximizing firms and firms that give a portion of their profits to social causes. Citizens obtain social satisfaction from corporate social givi...

The concept of entrepreneurship is still a debate whether it needs to be taught in formal education or not, but all agree that an entrepreneur one the economic drivers nation. purpose this research investigate student profile based on their past experiences especially among Moslem using self-assessment Timmons and Spinelli Jr. used quantitativemethodological approach. Questionnaires were sent o...

Commercial software firms are increasingly becoming involved with open source communities. In this research-in-progress paper I briefly analysed a single firm case that demonstrates how an institutional entrepreneur mixes in an innovative way different discourses in an attempt to legitimise a new mode for developing software applying both open and closed source codes. The institutional entrepre...

....in the long run no really subtle, deep, and far-reaching problems can be solved in any field whatsoever, except by people who are able to respond in an original and creative way to the ever changing and developing nature of the overall fact by which they are confronted." (Bohm, 1998). Creativity can lead to many initiatives which are relevant to the development of business. This paper begin...

Entrepreneurship allows nurses to design models of in-hospital nursing practice which would benefit patients, nurses, physicians, and the hospital. Article: There is a growing interest in nursing in designing professional practice models that "work," that is, models that promote benefit both to nurses and to the clients they serve. But devising hospital models of nursing practice that are satis...

The efficiency of legal restrictions on private contracts has been analyzed by Aghion and Hermalin (1990). In their model of asymmetric information the authors assume that the informed party has only one signal. The analysis refers to a contract between an uninformed investor and an entrepreneur who needs to raise a capital to fund his project. The entrepreneur can be one of two types, who diff...

background and aim: academic evaluation is one of the strategies applied for the enhancement of teaching conditions. student-based evaluation is one of the most common kinds of evaluation. the current study is aimed at the identification of important criteria of academic evaluation from the viewpoint of medical school students.   materials and methods: this is a descriptive, cross-sectional stu...