Weber Research Research Articles

Spirituality Business with Faith

Several studies have found that many business activities ignore human values ​​and damage the environment. This condition shows that business people ignore the spiritual factors in their activities. Therefore, it is a question of whether it is possible to combine business with spirituality so that business brings blessings to other people and their environment. The notion that business is contrary to religion has long been happening. Karl Mark considers that religion is an obstacle to economic development. However, Marx Weber's research proves that Protestantism in Europe and America can be a driver for the birth of capitalism. The modern economic theory finds that we will find saints, mystics, or Sufis in companies in the era of global markets. The business spiritual has taught that business is not just a matter of making money. However, there must be a balance between spiritual and material values ​​and respect for the human condition of future generations. In Islam, the union of business with the spiritual is not new. This fact is very clearly exemplified by the Prophet Muhammad. and his friends. The Prophet and the Companions did not separate business activities from spiritual values. A healthy business brings balance, as stated in Surah Ar-Rahman verses 7-9; the earth and sky were created in balance. Humans are prohibited from destroying the balance. In modern science, Elkington describes this balance in what is referred to as the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) between Profit, People, and Planet. To achieve the entire balance, Elkington's TBL in 3P (Profit, People, and Planet) must be added by 1 P, which is Prophet (Prophet). This Prophet guides business people to have spirituality, which is always their strength and awareness.

ETOS KERJA DALAM KAJIAN TEOLOGI ISLAM (ANALISIS PENELITIAN MAX WEBER TENTANG ETIKA PROTESTAN DI AMERIKA DAN ANALOGINYA DI ASIA)

<p><em>Max Weber's The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism explains the fact that in the context of modern Europe commercial leaders and capital owners, as well as those who are classified as high-skilled skilled workers, modern companies that are trained in the technical and commercial fields, most are Protestants. The author's purpose in raising this phenomenon is to compare Weber's research with theological views on work ethics. Methodologically, a comparative analysis approach was used in this study. The birth of the view that religion gave birth to an axiological-pragmatic value order that was able to change a society's condition from nothing to nothing, poor to rich, and so on, or in other words that the ethics of Protestant capitalism became a power that made Protestants more ethically superior working with Catholics or other religions is an inaccurate assessment. Theology and work ethic are very closely related because Work is a nature and is one of human identities, so work that is based on the principles of monotheistic faith, not only shows the nature of a Muslim, but at the same time elevates his dignity as a servant of Allah SWT. The findings in this study can be used by religious people in improving work ethic.</em><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong><em> Work Ethic, Max Weber, Theology</em></p>

Bridging rigour and relevance

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to call for an in‐depth reflection on Weber's research approach based on the notions of adequate causation and objective possibility.Design/methodology/approachThe paper illustrates the main characteristics and premises of the research approach. It further exemplifies its application through a qualitative study that investigates “How” and “Why” knowledge integration occurs in the creative processes of teams spanning over time and space. In so doing, it argues that Weber's epistemology could remain a valid point of reference to shift from the generation of empirical propositions through qualitative research to the quantitative analysis of empirical regularities recurring into a large number of empirical cases.FindingsThis paper shows how Weber's research approach could assist researchers in overcoming the dichotomy between rigour and relevance in qualitative research within organization and management studies.Originality/valueThe work offers new ways of looking at established ideas within organization and management studies, through new lenses as alternative ways of knowing social phenomena available to scholars, to produce theoretical knowledge relevant for and applicable into practice.

Max Weber. Die Leidenschaft des Denkens by Joachim Radkau (review)

[MWS 7.1 (2007) 119-132] ISSN 1470-8078 Book Reviews Joachim Radkau, Max Weber. Die Leidenschaft des Denkens (Munich: Hanser, 2005), pp. 1000. ISBN 3446206752.45€. When Max Weber died in 1920, Karl Jaspers felt as if the German world had lost its heart. This was an emotion particularly felt amongst the younger members in Max Weber's sphere, although he was actually in fact a master without pupils. After being released from teaching duties, he spent most of his remaining lifetime as a private scholar. His worldwide fame started decades after his death. Nonethe less, he became an authority of modern social science, and the international Weber industry continues to grow. Twenty years earlier, Lawrence Scaff predicted that whoever was successful with his own Weber interpretation would determine the further progress of the social sciences. If this is right, one can certainly say that 'Weber is power7. This is also the conclusion of historian Joachim Radkau, who examines the life and work of Max Weber in this voluminous biography. To anticipate the following remarks: this book is the first biography of Weber since 1926 that really may be called a biography. All the other previous attempts were merely extracts of Marianne Weber7s Lebensbild of Max Weber, a hagiographie widow's portrait, first published in 1926. Radkau's book offers new insights even for those who are familiar with Weber7s life and work. He quotes sources from private archive material that have not been accessible up to now, especially Marianne's diaries as well as unpublished letters, including correspondence between Max and Marianne, his mother, and his two lovers. All these sources provide a deeper and more accurate understanding of Weber's life, particularly his affective life. But at the same time, these sources lead the biographer to a voyeuristic attitude that is occasionally embarrassing and detrimental to his performance. Previously, Joachim Radkau had distinguished himself especially in fields such as the history of medicine and the history of technology. He has been an unknown quantity in Weber research up to now. But this should not be a disadvantage, because many things are seen more clearly with distance. Due to this, Radkau is - pleasantly - far from palming his own Weber interpretation off on the reader, and, moreover, he is relatively fair in describing rival interpretations. It was surely a good decision of his, to consult the advice of experts such as Christoph Braun, Stefan Breuer, Wilhelm Hennis, M. Rainer Lepsius, and Günther Roth, although he did not consider much of their advice. Anyway, the 'passion' which appears as the subtitle of Radkau's book, is also to be observed in his consideration of Max Weber. Meticulously, he has got used to Weber's monumental work, following its aspects into their finest ramifications, and putting them into biographical contexts. What he wants to offer to the reader is 'the whole Weber' - from the dissertation and the studies on the stock© Max Weber Studies 2007, Department of Applied Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, London El 7NT, UK. 120 Max Weber Studies market, the sociology of domination and the sociology of music, up to and including the love letters. Radkau's biography gives an intimate insight into Weber's life. It starts with the portrait of the scientist as a young man, growing up in a German upper-class family and feeling part of the elite. He then changes into the gruff, corpulent, hard drinking and duelling Heidelberg student, changes then again to become the newly appointed professor of economics demanding powerful imperial German politics in his Freiburg inaugural lecture, changing once more into the desperate workaholic trying to escape from depression, who was treated in mental hospitals year after year without any success. He concentrated later on his famous articles The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, and changed finally into the reconvalescent whose speed of life gained rapidly in the realms of love, science and politics, before he died, unexpectedly, in 1920. In the whole book it is transparent that Radkau's interest in Weber depends on his own field of research, the nerves. The author of a study on The Age of Nervousness has...

Discussion of Accounting Discretion in Fair Value Estimates: An Examination of SFAS 142 Goodwill Impairments

ABSTRACTBeatty and Weber examine an accounting choice that managers made upon adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 142: whether to record a goodwill asset impairment as a cumulative effect of an accounting change at the time of adoption or delay the recognition of such an impairment to the future (perhaps indefinitely) when they would be recorded as expenses in earnings from continuing operations. The authors consider several factors that might influence management's reporting of transition effects, including contracting, equity market incentives, and regulatory forces. Participants at the 2005 Journal of Accounting Research Conference questioned whether such a complex accounting decision can be captured with simple linear models and noisy proxy variables, while also speculating upon whether the results would generalize to other settings. In this discussion, I summarize Beatty and Weber's research, highlight its contribution to the accounting literature, and provide a record of the main issues raised by the conference participants.

Ein bisher unveröffentlichter Brief von Rudolf Kohlrausch and Andreas v. Ettingshausen von 1854, das Kohlrausch-Weber-Experiment von 1854/55 und die Lichtgeschwindigkeit in Wilhelm Webers Elektrodynamik

The reason for this letter was a belated delivery of the sinuselectrometer to the Austrian mathematician and physicist A.v. Ettingshausen in Vienna. The instrument was designed by R. Kohlrausch and made by the mechanic of the university in Marburg. By means of ths instrument the relations of charges could be measured. At the end of the letter Kohlrausch reported on the experiment made together with Wilhelm Weber for the determination of the relation between the absolute electrostatic and electromagnetic measured charges. The result was the velocity of light, but not perceived as such by Weber and Kohlrausch. In 1857 G. R. Kirchhoff was the first to define the connection between C w and C l ( $$c_w = \sqrt 2 \cdot c_L $$ ). for a better understanding the dimensions of the Triple-Systems (Dreiersysteme) are used in the article. A. v. Ettingshausen was in close contact with the university of Gottingen and published the results of C. F. Gauss' and Weber's research work in the Danubian monarchy at an early time. When in 1857 Kirchhoff presented his two important works on the undulatory motion of electricity in conductors to J. C. Poggendorff, the editor of the Annals of Physics and Chemistry—Kirchhoff's works contain a preliminary form of the telegraph-equations—it became apparent that W. Weber and R. Kohlrausch had almost brought about a similar work and had come to the same result as Kirchhoff. On account of Kohlrausch's death in 1858 W. Weber was forced to finish the work by himself and published it only 1864 entitled “Uber elektrische Schwingungen”. 1861 Maxwell at once discerned the velocity of light in the result and was now able to develop his elctromagnetic theory of light.

Rationalism, religion, and domination: a Weberian perspective

To grasp Weber's research program, to penetrate to the intellectual core of his methodological writings, has always been the aspiration of all those affected by Weber's thought. Since his death, repeated efforts have been made to establish the definitive approach to his work and his life. The studies in this volume are dedicated to presenting at least one unified approach to little-understood aspects of Weber's research program. Taking the overall development of Weber's work into account, Schluchter reconstructs Weber's research program from a comprehensive point of view that balances historical research and systematic thought with a biographical perspective. For Schluchter, Weber's studies in the sociology of religion and politics provide a psychological as well as sociological analysis of Weltanschauungen. Aimed at comparing and explaining the ultimate possible stances toward the world that humanity has taken and the modes of life conduct connected to them, Weber's studies must also be viewed as an attempt to locate one's own stance toward the world within the history of humanity and, by means of reflection, to obtain critical distance from it.

Some Tentative Modifications of Weber's Typology: Occidental versus Oriental City

This paper suggests to eliminate various difficulties concerning Weber's urban typology by offering some tentative modifications dependent on the needs of the researcher. The dichotomy of urban behavior, the appreciation and use of which is seriously hampered by an exceptionally poor translation, is one of the most important of Weber's typological dichotomies. In addition, due to the unfinished condition of Weber's opus there are several analytical ambiguities which need clarification. Recent outstanding contributions in the sociology of Islam, specifically of the Islamic medieval city, seem to support the validity of Weber's hypotheses. The evidence offered by recent studies of the ancient Mesopotamian as well as the Greco-Roman city is considered in relation to Weber's urban typological dichotomy. M ax Weber's typological dichotomy of urban behavior occupies a highly respectable place today in sociological theory. In this area, similarly to some other areas of Weber's research, there are certain more or less apparent difficulties which require the attention of the specialist and perhaps further clarification of several ambiguities. The rationale for this is well known. Max Weber did not finish his great opus and several parts were written at different stages of his intellectual growth. of the translators were without sociological training and in their hands the usage of various terminology became an additional source of confusion. The other translators, the professionally trained sociologists, were at times very much in a hurry (perhaps justifiably so) to satisfy the need for Weber's works in English. Stating it most charitably, some of them did not have a chance to measure up to the expectations of Weber's scholarship. Of course, certain German terms are untranslatable and the choice of English approximation was necessarily an individual decision. The purpose of this paper is to offer some tentative modifications in the dichotomy of urban behavior and render it more usable for sociological research and teaching. The paper will also account for a number of recent studies on ancient and Islamic medieval cities in order to test the validity of Weber's basic typology. In his extensive studies of the great Oriental cultures, in which he particularly searched for the interdependence of religious and economic behavioral patterns, Max Weber offered among other sets of constructed types,1 a dichotomy of the two types of urban behavior: the Oriental and Occidental city. In the Occidental type Weber included the ancient and the early as well as the late medieval Western European city. In spite of this typological decision Weber was aware of the fundamental distinction between the ancient (Greco-Roman) and the late medieval city and this awareness seems to support the need for the modification of his original formulation of the Occidental type. In the 1 John C. McKinney, Constructive Typology and Social in An Introduction to Social Research, (ed.) John T. Doby (Harrisburg, Pa.: The Stackpole Co., 1954), pp. 150-155; Vatro Murvar, Some Reflections on Weber's typology of Herrschaft, The Sociological Qutarterly (Autumn 1964), pp. 374-384. This content downloaded from 207.46.13.76 on Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:55:40 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms