This qualitative study explores the welfare recipients’ experiences of and attitudes toward the welfare benefit system in Hong Kong. A sample of 19 welfare recipients from six main recipient groups was interviewed, some twice. This study finds that the recipients have strong aspirations to exit the welfare benefit system. The welfare application process is painful; they are strongly stigmatized...

Business management within the United States of America contains unacknowledged, inherent contradictions that constrain individual and collective action, form barriers against development authenticity solidarity organizations. The Emersonian themes conformity, consistency, knowledge, as developed in his 1841 essay Self-Reliance, were used constructive points philosophical inquiry around which t...