The research paper seeks to answer the following questions : how do social entrepreneurial start-ups develop ? How do they make use of their stakeholder relationships (what do they gain, how do stakeholders participate) ? This study also sets out to identify a few success factors in a small...

Taking a new look on how prices get formed, The Price can be summed up in a double way back: way back to Adam Smith on the one hand, to whom the price does not pop up by comparing supply and demand; way back to Aristotle on the other hand, to whom the price is reflecting a comparison between the...

Tools for conviviality is an essay of Ivan Illich, published in 1973 in New York, which aims to develop a moral critique of the industrial society. Illich describes the evolution of our Western society as "self-destructive" and senseless, and where the capitalism's tools only justify by and for...

This reading note is an attempt to identify some of the ideas developed in the book -– while trying to depict how coherent and achieved Illich's progression is. Comments emphasise both the content of the book, that is to say Illich's radical criticism of the industrial era and the alternative he...

Is Capitalism moral? is a synthesis of several lectures delivered by André Comte-Sponville about business ethics. His first goal is to clarify the concept of relations between economics, politics and ethics in a context where the trend of Corporate Social Responsibility might lead to confusion on...