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On Moral Capital

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Authors:
  1. Xiaoxi Wang

    1. Philosophy Department, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

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  • Proposes the concept of "moral capital" as an original contribution to the existing research literature on economic ethics

  • Develops an evaluation index system for measuring moral assets in enterprises

  • Showcases the latest corporate development characters of Chinese enterprises

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Theoretical Basis of Moral Capital

    • Xiaoxi Wang
    Pages 1-53

  3. The Theory of Moral Capital

    • Xiaoxi Wang
    Pages 55-131

  4. The Traditional Theory of Moral Capital in Chinese Intellectual History

    • Xiaoxi Wang
    Pages 133-208

  5. The Roles Played by Moral Capital in Business Operations

    • Xiaoxi Wang
    Pages 209-255

  6. Annex: Corporate Moral Capital and its Evaluation Index System

    • Xiaoxi Wang
    Pages 257-264

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 265-266
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About this book

This book promotes the original concept of “Moral Capital” as the key to analyzing the nature and function of morality in economic activities. The book is divided into three major sections. In the first, the author argues that the logical connections between morality and economy and those between morality and profit provide a concrete theoretical basis for the concept of moral capital. In the second, the author elucidates the concept, the form and the functional mechanism of moral capital. In the third, the author describes the economic ethics of traditional Chinese intellectual history, especially the main idea of morality’s role in economics, which shows the historical narrative of this concept and provides resources on ideological history, helping businesses to establish their own moral capital approaches and accumulate moral capital. In the fourth, the author explores the special economic role of morality, and proposes an evaluation index system for assessing moral assets in enterprises, demonstrating the concept of moral capital’s significance from both a theoretical and application-oriented standpoint.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy Department, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

    Xiaoxi Wang

About the author

Xiaoxi Wang, Ph.D., a specialist sponsored by the State Council Special Allowance, professor at Nanjing Normal University, dissertation advisor, director of the Research Institute for Economic Ethics, vice chairman of Ethical Society of China, Chairman of Economic Ethics Society of China, director of the Research Institute for Economic Ethics at the Center of Ethics and Moral Construction of Renmin University of China, one of the hundred key research bases of the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Science, the chief project expert for “Studies of the General History of the Thoughts of Economic Ethics of China” of the National Social Science Fund Project for Tendering, editor of Chinese Social Science Digest, editor in chief of Yearbook of Chinese Economic Ethics. His main works include Chinese Economic Ethics, Moral Capital and Economic Ethics (self-selected essays), General Introduction to Ethics (ed.), Contemporary Western Philosophy of Life (ed.), 60 Years of Chinese Ethics (co-author), etc. His Chinese Traditional Thoughts of Economic Ethics has been translated into Korean and published in South Korean. Xiaoxi Wang was selected in the third Chinese Outstanding Humanities Scientists in Research Report on Chinese Outstanding Humanities Scientists of 2011.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On Moral Capital

  • Authors: Xiaoxi Wang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45544-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Yilin Press, Ltd. and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45543-2Published: 26 January 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51584-6Published: 06 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45544-9Published: 14 January 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 266

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ethics, Economics, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology

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