Exploring personal interests of physicians in hospitals and specialty clinics

Koelewijn, Wout Theodoor; Ehrenhard, Michel Léon; Groen, Arend J.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.10.038

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“…The exception to this rule is Lloyd Banking Group, which was fined £28 million after it pressured employees into selling products that were deemed unnecessary for some clients (Jones, ). Here, we found that a value that in general would be considered “good” can be interpreted and implemented in a way that is detrimental to society (for a more detailed discussion in another sector, see Koelewijn, Ehrenhard, Groen, & Van Harten, ), the financial system, and—in the end—the bank itself, as short‐term profit is canceled out by value destruction in the form of fines and reputational damage.…”

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Corporate values of the 25 largest European banks: Exploring the ambiguous link with corporate scandals

Ehrenhard

Fiorito

2018

Journal of Public Affairs

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and actual values and ensuing behaviors of and within a firm-let alone the potentially different interpretations of abstract corporate value statements. In this paper, we set out to provide more clarity on what corporate values are, how they are inherently ambiguous, and how in practice they compare to firm involvement in scandals. For this purpose, we study the corporate values of the 25 largest European banks after the financial crisis. "Integrity" appeared to be the most common value among the 25 banks, followed by "customer focus." Nonetheless, over the past 6 years, 15 out of the 25 studied banks were involved in one or more scandals. Scandals can be systematic or caused by rogue employees, and benefitting the firm or their customers-in the latter case, providing an interesting interpretation of the customer focus value. Additionally, we found that courage or its synonyms were barely mentioned among banks' corporate values, potentially providing an additional explanation for the fast size of the financial crisis. Finally, we found that banks that had inclusive social principles such as respect, solidarity, and equality did not face large-scale scandals. between values leave ample room for interpretation (Berlin, 1996). In other words, the corporate value of profit seeking is very important but usually not the only and unbounded corporate value a firm wants to follow. In this respect, we consider the financial sector an interesting ground for study as the sector has come under close scrutiny in the past decade for an overemphasis on profit seeking-often portrayed as to the detriment to their customers and society. Such behavior could be considered a form of Mertonian innovation in which actors aim to achieve institutionalized goals but reject institutionalized means (Merton, 1957). By looking at the financial sector postcrisis, we attempt to study corporate values after a period of great uncertainty and volatility for this sector.Although most large corporations state their corporate values on their websites, the research into corporate values is rather scarce. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Corporate values of the 25 largest European banks: Exploring the ambiguous link with corporate scandals

Ehrenhard

Fiorito

2018

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“…Habermas suggests a pluralist definition of knowledge depending on the precedence of cognitive interests. Extra-theoretical interests, found in any research process, are those that are removed from scientific criteria and relate to personal, social status, professional, political, or ideological criteria (Koelewijn et al, 2014). Intra-theoretical interests refer to the fundamental cognitive interest of the research, to the way and methods of approaching science which, inherent to every knowledge discipline, contribute to its epistemic reliability (Wilholt, 2013).…”

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Habermasian knowledge interests: epistemological implications for health sciences

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The Habermasian concept of 'interest' has had a profound effect on the characterization of scientific disciplines. Going beyond issues unrelated to the theory itself, intra-theoretical interest characterizes the specific ways of approaching any science-related discipline, defining research topics and methodologies. This approach was developed by Jürgen Habermas in relation to empirical-analytical sciences, historical-hermeneutics sciences, and critical sciences; however, he did not make any specific references to health sciences. This article aims to contribute to shaping a general epistemological framework for health sciences, as well as its specific implications for the medical and nursing areas, via an analysis of the basic knowledge interests developed by Habermas.

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“…The search for knowledge is always driven by some kind of purpose. From knowledge, extra‐theoretical interests of a personal, professional, political and ideological nature emerge (Koelewijn, Ehrenhard, Groen, & Van Harten, ), which influence clinical decisions, objectives, policies and/or funding of research. There are also intratheoretical interests, specific to each knowledge discipline, which define its object of study, research methods and ways of doing science.…”

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