A Public Philosophy for the Professional-Managerial Class

The Philosophy of Professional Ethics

1. Three Types of Professional Ethics 2. Sociological Foundations 3. Goals of Professional Work and Their Problems 4. Normative and Evaluative Elements in Professional Work 4.1. Duty and Obligation 4.2. Professional Rights 4.3. Virtues in Professional Life 5. Engineering Ethics 5.1. The Service Ideal of Engineering 5.2. The Principle of Double Loyalties 6. Progress and Rationality in Engineerin...

Managerial performance and cost efficiency of Japanese local public hospitals: a latent class stochastic frontier model.

The paper explores the link between managerial performance and cost efficiency of 617 Japanese general local public hospitals in 1999-2007. Treating managerial performance as unobservable heterogeneity, the paper employs a panel data stochastic cost frontier model with latent classes. Financial parameters associated with better managerial performance are found to be positively significant in ex...

Managerial Capitalism and Public Policy

Business historians know that public policy--the mix of law, public administration, and politics--has had an important impact on the development of the American business system. The scholarly issue, of course, is how important, and in what ways in particular. Business and economic historians have produced a rich literature on the place public policy had in building a transportation infrastructu...

A native proposal for the philosophy of history

Though philosophy of history like other fields of knowledge has its roots in eastern traditional knowledge, as an epistemological branch it appeared in West and then entered in East. Present states of knowledge in Islamic Iran, particularly with regard to the necessities and grounds of change in humanities, have prepared an opportunity to present a proposal in the field of philosophy of history...

A Managerial Motive for Initial Public Offering Underpricing