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Donald Moon argues that neither rights nor equality can serve as adequate moral or political basis for a welfare state in addressing the Hegel's dilemma. The Hegel's dilemma is that organisation of economic life through the market in a democratic state produces great wealth as well as great poverty and individuals in such state fall in either category. The wide gulf in wealth among individuals in a market economy is a problem which a democratic welfare state seeks to address but, for Moon, rights or equality is not adequate moral and political basis of the welfare state for solving the problem. He proposes the principles of economic management, provision of services and social insurance as alternative and adequate bases for a welfare state in addressing the problem. This paper queries Moon's proposal. The paper argues that Moon's proposed institutional principles are inadequate in addressing the problem without a fundamental moral and/or political basis upon which these principles can be justifiably founded. The paper posits that rights provide a plausible and adequate foundational moral and political basis for the principles in order to adequately address the problem created by the market economy without jeopardising the idea of human self-respect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on materials obtained from fieldwork in three Chinese cities and data collected through online ethnography as a complementary method, this article investigates the relationship between Chinese trade unions and food delivery workers resisting the exploitation of platform capitalism. The article first analyzes the impact of the official character and structure of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) on its compatibility with delivery workers. Constrained by Chinese policies and regime, the ACFTU is absent from the collective action mobilization of delivery workers. Thus, it is shown that, by this absence, the Chinese couriers have opted for self-organization. However, while avoiding the role of mobilization, Chinese unions have responded and acted on the emergence of the couriers and the growth of their protest actions. As a result of these practices, some new union organizing patterns in platform capitalism have emerged in different regions. Whereas unions for platform workers, initially in the form of service stations, focused on providing welfare to workers, the actions of these unions are now shifting toward promoting collective bargaining. This article highlights that the ambiguous legal relationship between platforms and workers, the multiple outsourcing of Chinese platforms, and the geographical dispersion of outsourcing companies have challenged the ACFTU’s traditional union organization patterns, with the result that special unions have been created at different levels for couriers by innovating beyond the established system, abandoning the tradition of employer-controlled “paper unions” and potentially gaining substantive bargaining power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the role of information technology and communication in capitalism. It highlights the impact of infrastructure development, financial transactions and architectural organizational structure of industry on ecology. It also highlights the characterization of technical and digital components involved in capitalism.

Universally accepted that " Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the voluntary integration of social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their relationships with internal and external stakeholders in order to fully comply with applicable legal requirements and investing in human capital." However, it is a postulate admitted by all, CSR is the exclusive domain of performers. It thrives in highly entrenched systems in the strong Liberal developing their social gains of respect for human rights, stability and social representation. The CSR is gaining ground in Algeria, where an increasing number of Algerian companies adopt the ISO 26000 standard on social responsibility. ISO 26000 was established in November 2010 by the ISO organization. This is the new fundamental norm symbolizing a consistent understanding of social responsibility worldwide. This fosters innovation to meet the different issues related to sustainable development. In total seven core subjects are defined and for which any organization applying for the ISO 26000 standard should comply, namely: organizational governance of the entity, respect for human rights, relationships and working conditions, respect for the environment, respect for the law, the relationship with the consumer and local development. The contribution of this paper is theoretical and attempts to answer the following concern: the popularity of these companies for ISO 26000 certification, it will eventually lead to a new governance of the Algerian company, which runs into difficulties while order from the market economy proclaimed by the Algerian state, or is it a fad to comply with what is required by globalization? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents a report on the economic concepts and the governance of a company. It states that the corporate governance is a system by which a firm is directed and controlled. It mentions about the evolution of the corporate governance without recalling financial capitalism. It also mentions about the different objectives and theories that a firm may have for its governance.

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Broadly the result of the transition to the market economy just as the theoretical contributions and the reflections made around are far from being completed. What makes besides say to Kornai János which the transitology by no means completed its mission and that it to tell the truth did not even start necessary basic work. We hope that our article made it possible to appreciate the extent of the process and its consequences on many economies and hundreds of millions human beings. The starting situations, the course of the processes, the adopted methods and the surprises which occurred were as many elements which made than all these transformations while comprising common elements had single properties and characteristics and particular trajectories. The diversity of the situations and the theoretical approaches can constitute a pledge for the opening of a theoretical field inter disciplinary which can exceed the insufficiencies and the inconsistencies of the standard theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]