Index

Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas SJ Fr (XLRI – Xavier School of Management, India)
Munish Thakur Prof (XLRI – Xavier School of Management, India)
Payal Kumar Dr (Indian School of Hospitality, India)

A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics

ISBN: 978-1-83753-313-8, eISBN: 978-1-83753-312-1

Publication date: 4 March 2024

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Mascarenhas, O.A.J., Thakur, M. and Kumar, P. (2024), "Index", A Primer on Critical Thinking and Business Ethics, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 211-217. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-312-120231008

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Copyright © 2024 Oswald A. J. Mascarenhas, Munish Thakur and Payal Kumar. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


INDEX

Academic excellence
, 118

Accountability (A)
, 99

Adam Smith
, 2

capitalism
, 15

theory of free capitalist markets
, 3–4

Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
, 184

Advertisement–promotion communication system
, 6

Agency condition (AC)
, 87

Agency theory
, 32

Agricultural economy
, 111–112

Ambiguity
, 68–69

American capital accumulation
, 2

American capitalism
, 2–4, 6, 8–9

Analytical knowledge
, 139, 177

Annual General Body Meetings (AGBM)
, 84, 98

Anthropocentric theory
, 26

Anthropocentrism
, 52

Antiknowledge
, 70

Appropriational moral responsibility
, 72

Arctic meltdown
, 156–157

Aspiration
, 167

Assumptive thinking
, xxii

Attributional moral responsibility
, 72

Attributive responsibility
, 77

Authority ranking
, 39, 59

Avoidability
, 88–89

Avoidance opportunity condition (AOC)
, 87

Balance-of-nature theory
, 26

Benefit corporation
, 25

Black and Scholes (option-pricing) model (BSM)
, 45–50

Black Swans
, 68–69

events
, 70–71

periodic dominance of black swan turbulence
, 71

Boardroom capitalism
, 12–13

Bottom of the pyramid
, 42

Breakthrough innovative talent management and development
, 118–119

Breakthrough theory
, 26

Business ethicists
, 67

Business faith
, 125

Business management
, 132

Business scholars
, 117

Business schools
, 117, 128

curriculum
, 118

Capital
, 2

accumulation
, 2

Capitalism
, 1–3, 22, 50, 66

Adam Smith
, 15

causes
, 21

conscious
, 24–25

curbing boardroom
, 12–13

fundamental structural assumptions
, 3–12

inclusive capitalism
, 19–20

Marxian response to
, 13–15

opponents
, 16

opposition to
, 15–16

positive hopes
, 18

putative models
, 22–24

Capitalist corporation
, 2

Capitalist system
, 2

Carbon emissions reduction
, 111–112

Carbon trading
, 111–112

Causal relevancy condition (CRC)
, 87

Causal responsibility
, 77

Causal sense of responsibility
, 76–77

Causality (C)
, 89, 99

Causation
, 81

Central banks
, 8

Chaos theory
, 67

Charismatic leadership, humanizing management with
, 119

Collective accountability
, 89

Collective intentionality
, 89

Common good
, 60

Common ground
, 154–155

Communal sharing
, 39–40

Community opportunity sharing
, 60

Commutative justice
, 28

Compartmentalization
, 120–121

Competencies
, 167

Complex problems
, 169

Complexity
, 148

Conscious capitalism
, 24–25

Continental hurricanes
, 156–157

Corporate
, 2

executives
, 67

sustainability
, 29

Corporate moral responsibility
, xxv

broader context of
, 80–81, 89, 91, 93

Corporations
, 82

Cosmic sustainability
, 60–61

Cost containment
, 41

Cost minimization
, 45

“Counter-performativity” thesis
, 45

Coupling
, 149

Creation theory
, 26

Creativity–innovation management
, 140, 143, 172

Critical thinking
, 1–2

Criticisms
, 111–112

Cross-consistency assessment (CCA)
, 166

Cuban social developmental approach
, 50

Das Kapital
, xxiii

Data analytic
, 72

Data mining
, 72

Data selling professionals
, 72

Data snooping
, 72

Death March Project
, 160

Deception
, 152

Decision-making
, 75–76, 81

Deontic sense of responsibility
, 76–77

Deontological justice
, 28

Descriptive knowledge
, 139, 176

Dialogue
, 155

Distributive justice
, 28, 60–61

Division of labor
, 13–14

Dynamic complexity
, 148

E-entertainment networking experience economy
, 111–112

Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA)
, 52

Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)
, 52

Eco-sustainability
, 111–112

Ecological justice
, 28

Ecology
, 29

Economic
, 29

development
, 32

Edward Deming
, 116

Emotional quotient
, 134–137

Enabling condition (EC)
, 98

Enlightenment schools
, xxii

Entrepreneur
, 55

Entrepreneurial knowledge
, 178

Environment
, 29

Equality
, 176

Equality matching
, 39, 60–61

Experiential knowledge
, 139, 177

Extrinsic motivation
, 144

Financial economics
, 45

Financial investment corporations
, 114

Financial market crisis
, 3

Financial markets
, 11

Fooled by Randomness
, 107

Formal organizations
, 82

Fraud
, 126

Free enterprise capitalism

complex problems
, 151

pseudo problems
, 152

simple problems
, 151

structure of problems in
, 149–152

Free enterprise capitalist system (FECS)
, 3, 24

basic assumptions
, 4–5

critical analysis
, 23–24

definitional concerns
, 10

presumed supremacy of US-based
, 25–27

problems
, 11

Free enterprise system
, 6

Free market system
, 1–2, 6, 29

Freedom (F)
, 99

Friedrich Engels
, xxiii

Fundamental breakthroughs
, 119

General Congregation (GC)
, 125

General morphological analysis (GMA)
, 165–166

General Motors (GM)
, 66

Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
, 116

Genocide
, 156–157

Ghettoes
, 156

Global climate change
, 156–157

Global cyber fraud
, 156–157

Global hacking
, 156–157

Global holocausts
, 156–157

Global invasion of privacy
, 156–157

Global terrorism
, 156–157

Global tsunami
, 156–157

Global warming
, 156–157

Globalization
, 62, 64, 116

Globalized information-communication economy
, 111–112

Great Recession
, 7–9

Gross domestic product (GDP)
, 36, 114

Gross national product (GNP)
, 114

Happiness justice
, 43–44

Hedge funds
, 69

Higher education
, 112–113

Honest profits
, 41–42

Human resources (HR)
, 172

Human resources management (HRM)
, 114

Humanizing management
, 119

Inclusive capitalism
, 19–20, 25, 36

challenges
, 20

poverty eradication through
, 54

Individual responsibility
, 74–75

Industrial Age
, 11

Industrial manufacturing economy
, 111–112

Information Age
, 11

Innovation
, 119

Instrumental stakeholder theory
, 39–40

Integral humanism
, 25

Integrated business management (IBM)
, 176

Integrated management system
, 128

Intellectual quotient
, 134–137

Intentionality (I)
, 81, 99

Interactive complexity
, 149

Internal rate of return (IRR)
, 34

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
, 3

Intrinsic intentionality
, 81

Intrinsic motivation
, 139

Joint condition (JC)
, 98

Joint mechanisms
, 90–97

Joint responsibility
, 109

Joint value creation
, 39

Karl Marx
, 13–14

Knowledge creation
, 112

Labor
, 13–14

Learning from outlier student performance
, 120

Legal responsibility
, 76

Listening
, 155

Management
, 32

education
, 113–116

model
, 119

theory
, 32, 34, 37

Mapmaking
, 155

Margin economics
, 38–39

Margin maximization
, 45

Market performativity
, 50

paradigm shift from social performativity to
, 52

Market pricing
, 39

Market system
, 28

Marxian response to capitalism
, 13–15

Master in Business Administration program (MBA program)
, 111–112, 127, 153

breakthrough innovative talent management and development
, 118–119

change in management education
, 116

de-mechanize education
, 126–128

design structure
, 138

humanizing management with charismatic leadership
, 119

imperatives
, 118

initial assessment of redesigned
, 139–144

lack of intrinsic motivation
, 126

learning from outlier student performance
, 120

major criticisms
, 122–125

major indictments of traditional MBA program
, 117–121

paradigm shift
, 128, 133–134, 137

problems with higher education
, 112–113

problems with management education
, 113–116

professionalizing MBA program and curriculum
, 138–139

radical integration management sans compartmentalization
, 120–121

redesigning
, 121–128

redesigning MBA curriculum
, 153–154

scholarly positive directions
, 132–133

sets of biases, prejudices, presumptions, and presuppositions
, 129–131

strategic change
, 138

template for professional development of
, 140–143

Mediocristan
, 71

Messes
, 148

Mistrust
, 155

Money laundering
, 126

Moral agency
, 83

Moral coordination
, 89

Moral disvalues
, 66

Moral failure
, 67–69

Moral goodness
, 67–69

Moral implementation
, 80

Moral leadership
, 126

Moral perception
, 80

Moral personhood
, 84

Moral projection
, 80

Moral reasoning
, 80, 176

Moral responsibility
, 66, 76–77, 83, 87

constituents of individual and collective
, 94–96

domain, scope, and mandate of individual, joint, and corporate
, 102–105

legal and moral responsibilities
, 90, 97

locus of corporate
, 74–75

mini cases
, 98–100

necessary and sufficient conditions
, 81–89

net moral goodness triumphs over moral failure
, 67–69

organizations
, 78–79

periodic dominance of black swan turbulence
, 71

problem
, 73

randomness and black swan events
, 70–71

randomness-free industries
, 72–73

randomness-prone industries
, 72

scalable and nonscalable industries
, 69

Moral values
, 66

Moralists
, 79

Morality
, 67

of profits and losses
, 55

Morphological field
, 165–166

Mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive (MECE)
, 89

Narrow Self-Interest (NSI)
, 36–37

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
, 68

Natural causal responsibility
, 77

Natural disasters
, 159

Necessary condition (NC)
, 98

Neocapitalism
, 21

Net moral goodness triumphs over moral failure
, 67–69

Net present value (NPV)
, 34

Neutrality theory
, 26

New product development (NPD)
, 176

9/11
, 156–157

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
, 20, 54

Nonscalable industries
, 68–69

Official curriculum
, 127

One shot operation
, 162

Organizational behaviour
, 82

Organizational learning
, 151

Organizations
, 78–79

Over-fitting regression
, 72

Paradigm shift
, 52

Paris Summit Agreement
, 29

Parker–Pearson justice
, 12

Peak load pricing
, 50

Performativity

of markets
, 45–50

thesis
, 50

Physical quotient
, 134–137

Planetary ecology
, 35–36, 101

Political
, 3–4

Poverty eradication through inclusive capitalism
, 54

Prescriptive attributions
, 106

Presumptive thinking
, xxii

Primacy of technology
, 25–27

Problem complexity
, 183

Problem-centered curriculum
, 183–186

Problem–resolution design
, 152

Problems
, 148

Problem–solution
, 151

Production management
, 116

Professionalizing MBA program and curriculum
, 138–139

Profit maximization (PM)
, 32, 38, 62, 64

critical analysis
, 46–49

major criticism against management theory and research
, 34–36

modelling
, 44–45

promising alternatives
, 41–42

within relational economics
, 39–40

Profit sharing
, 57–58

Prospective responsibility
, 108

Protestant Movement
, xxiii

Pseudo problems
, 152

Public relations (PR)
, 184

Puzzles
, 148

Radical integration management
, 120–121

Randomness
, 68, 70–71

Randomness-free industries
, 72–73

Randomness-prone industries
, 72

Rapid innovation
, 132

Rationality (R)
, 81, 89, 99

Real listening
, 155

Reckless corporate cost-containment methods
, 159

Redesigned MBA program
, 138

Relational economics
, 37, 39–40

PM within
, 39–40

Relational model
, 60

Relational value economics
, 60

Residual sharing
, 58

Responsibility
, 66, 73, 76

Responsible marketing
, 50

Retrospective responsibility
, 108

Return on assets (ROA)
, 34

Return on capital employed (ROCE)
, 34

Return on invested capital (ROIC)
, 34

Return on investment (ROI)
, 34

Revenue enhancement
, 41

Revenue generation
, 41

Revenue maximization
, 45

Rio Declaration
, 32

Risk management
, 185

“Round trip” trading (see Wash trading)

Sapiential knowledge
, 139, 177

Scalable industries
, 68–69

Secular stagnation
, 9

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
, 113–114, 148–149

Self-interested agents
, 60

Self-limitation theory
, 26

“Sell/buyback” trading (see Wash trading)

Serendipity
, 68

Servant of social progress
, 32

Services economy
, 111–112

Share
, 12

Shareholder value creation
, 50

Shareholder wealth maximization (SWM)
, 36–37, 60–61

Silicon Valley
, 69–70

Simple problems
, 151

Single-objective views
, 36–37

Single-valued objective
, 36

Social accountability
, 112

Social development
, 60–61

Social e-entertainment networking experience economy
, 111–112

Social growth management
, 179–182

Social justice
, 58–59

Social performativity
, 50

paradigm shift from market performativity to
, 52

Social progress
, 50

Social reality
, 45–50

Social wealth
, 38–39

Social welfare
, 39

Socialism
, xxiii

Socialist firms
, 57–58

Solution space
, 151

“Sovereign” system
, 3–4

Spiritual quotient
, 134–137

Stakeholder-oriented “relational” approach
, 39–40

Stakeholders
, 66

Stochastic sequences
, 169

Substantive responsibility
, 108

Sufficient condition (SC)
, 98

Sustainability
, 42

justice
, 43

management
, 139

Sustainable competitive advantage (SCA)
, 125

Sustainable human resources management
, 37

Sustained profitability
, xxv

Systems
, 147–148

thinking
, 147–148

Talent management
, 118–119

Tame problems
, 155–156

Technological advancements
, xxi

Technological obsolescence
, 126

Technological supremacy
, 27

attitudinal changes
, 27

presumptuous theories
, 26

Technology
, 19–20

Teleological justice
, 28

Total quality management (TQM)
, 116

Traditional linear processes
, 155–156

Traditional management theory
, 34

Transactional economics
, 37, 39–40, 59

Trial and error
, 162

Trust
, 155

Turbulent markets
, 68

Type I randomness
, 71

Uncertainty
, 148–149

United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
, 116

Unstructured problems
, 177

US Federal Reserve
, 7–8

Value egalitarianism
, 60

Value imperative
, 144

Value judgment
, 84

Value pluralism
, 60

Value relevance
, 84

Value sensitivity
, 84

Virtue sense of responsibility
, 76–77

Wash trading
, 116

Wealth creation
, 41

Wealth maximization
, 41

Welfare justice
, 43

Wicked problems
, 111–112, 152, 154, 160, 179, 182

alternative design of MBA program
, 172–183

avoided in resolving
, 163–164

challenges in formulation
, 157–160

challenges in resolution
, 154–157

characterizing
, 160–163

comprehensive characterization
, 158–159

general morphological analysis
, 165–166

methodological criteria for dealing with
, 165

problem selection
, 186–187

redesigned MBA curriculum
, 173–175

structure of problems in free enterprise capitalism
, 149–152

synthesis of problems
, 169–171

theory of
, 147–187

tried and proven ways
, 167–168

unique features of redesigned MBA program
, 183–186

Wickedness
, 153–154

World Trading Organization (WTO)
, 44–45