1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452379303321

Autore

Jackall Robert

Titolo

Moral mazes : the world of corporate managers / / Robert Jackall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010

ISBN

0-19-936164-9

0-19-997401-2

Edizione

[Twentieth anniversary edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (309 p.)

Disciplina

174/.4

Soggetti

Business ethics - United States

Corporations - Corrupt practices - United States

Executives - Professional ethics - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Moral probations, old and new -- The social structure of managerial work -- The main chance -- Looking up and looking around -- Drawing lines -- Dexterity with symbols -- The magic lantern -- Invitations to jeopardy.

Sommario/riassunto

This classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. What sort of everyday rules-in-use do people play by when there are no fixed standards to explain why some succeed and others fail? In the words of one corporate manager, those rules boil down to this maxim: ""What is right in the corporati



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996385115203316

Autore

Coronelli Vincenzo <1650-1718.>

Titolo

An historical and geographical account of the Morea, Negropont, and the maritime places, as far as Thessalonica [[electronic resource] ] : illustrated with 42 maps of the countries, plains, and draughts of the cities, towns and fortifications / / written in Italian by P.M. Coronelli .... ; Englished by R. W., Gent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Matth. Gillyflower ... and W. Canning ..., 1687

Descrizione fisica

[8], 230, [1] p. [40] folded leaves of plates : ill., maps, plans

Altri autori (Persone)

R. W, Gent

Soggetti

Greece Description and travel

Greece Description and travel Early works to 1800

Greece Historical geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Memorie istorigrafiche del regno di Morea e Negroponte.

Advertisement on p. [1] at end.

Reproduction of original in British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



3.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004346124207536

Autore

Fadeev, Aleksandr Aleksandrovič

Titolo

La disfatta / Aleksander Fadeev ; [traduzione di Giovanni Langella]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Einaudi, 1952

Titolo uniforme

Razgrom 941015

Edizione

[2. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

323 p. ; 17 cm

Collana

Piccola biblioteca scientifico-letteraria 48

Altri autori (Persone)

Langella, Giovanni

Disciplina

891.73

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia