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Corporate social responsibility: A perspective from Weberian economic sociology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Answering the call for a new theoretical approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), this paper makes a suggestion from a Weberian perspective. It briefly appraises the existing research on CSR and develops key points of a new approach based on ...
Boeddeling, Jann
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Weber, Art, and Social Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Max Weber’s contribution to cultural sociology has received insufficient attention, due to the unfinished character of his work and its reception. This paper investigates aspects of his contribution in relation to the field of art, broadly conceived, and
Scaff, Lawrence A.
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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History [PDF]

open access: yes
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to ...
Ludger Woessmann, Sascha O. Becker
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The sociological imagination and its promise fifty years later: Is there a future for the social sciences as a free form of enquiry? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper offers a restatement of Wright Mills’ The Sociological Imagination and tries to judge whether its promise can be credibly renewed today by addressing the question about the present and future possibilities of the social sciences as free forms ...
Frade, C
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Why Europe? On comparative long-term growth [PDF]

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Four historical macro phenomena of development ask for an explanation: the slow increase of welfare in Western Europe from the Middle Ages up to the publication of the Wealth of Nations, rapid modern economic growth in Europe and its transoceanic ...
Hans-Jürgen Wagener
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