http://www.rljae.org/currentissue.asp Ramon Llull J Appl Ethics 2012 - 3(3) Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics Medknow Publications2013-8393 Antonio Argandoña Norbert Bilbeny Victòria Camps Miquel Calsina Àngel Castiñeira Cristian Palazzi Ferran Requejo Raimon Ribera Begoña Román Ferran Sàez Miquel Seguró Francesc Torralba Josep Maria Vallès Rosamund Thomas Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):9-16Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/9/107294 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/9/10729433 9 16 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/9/107294 Antonio Argandoña, Norbert Bilbeny, Victòria Camps, Miquel Calsina, Àngel Castiñeira, Cristian Palazzi, Ferran Requejo, Raimon Ribera, Begoña Román, Ferran Sàez, Miquel Seguró, Francesc Torralba, Josep Maria Vallès, Rosamund Thomas

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]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/9/107294 David Murillo Steen Vallentin Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):17-46Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/17/107297 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/17/10729733 17 46 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/17/107297 David Murillo, Steen Vallentin

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This paper is a response to the opening of new lines of research on CSR and SMEs (Thompson & Smith, 1991; Spence, 1999; Moore & Smith, 2006; Spence, 2007). It seeks to explore the business case for CSR in this corporate segment. The paper, which is based on four case studies of medium-sized firms in the automotive sector, took the distinctive approach of trying to understand the nature of CSR-like activities developed not by best-in-class CSR-driven companies but by purely competitiveness-driven firms. The case studies provide explicit evidence that the CSR activities of SMEs and the notion of social capital are interrelated, turning social capital into a powerful instrument to better explain what academic literature has called silent CSR practices. The analysis that follows questions some of the basic tenets that underpin the branch of business ethics that deals with the nature of SMEs' approach to CSR. Four basic concerns, which take the form of propositions for further research, serve as the basis for this analysis: a) A definition of CSR that includes most of the actions taken by all companies in the territory contributes no academic value to the discipline b) Any study of the motivation behind these CSR actions must reflect their essentially pragmatic nature. Actions are linked to social values but also, more importantly, to the nature of the competitive environment c) Business ethics must seek common ground with other more sociological disciplines if it is to explain the reasons behind this type of action d) Any study of this kind of practice requires a dual approach: a) normative when using tools developed by CSR; and b) descriptive and instrumental using the notion of social capital.]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/17/107297 Fausto J Sainz Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):47-62Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/47/107298 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/47/10729833 47 62 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/47/107298 Fausto J Sainz

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Living labs represent an important step in the development of research solutions based on the inclusive design paradigm. To ensure participants' rights and the adoption of an ethical approach to technological research, this paper presents some tools and strategies that comply with the needs and rights of those less advantaged groups to ensure that their rights and demands are taken into account. There is a gap in the construction and development of norms for a living lab. This article summarizes the efforts made to achieve the goals of ethical awareness, enumerates the issues related to the ethical problems that may arise during participatory design and living labs environments, describes working routines, and outlines recommendations for achieving this objective. This paper attempts to focus on those aspects of research development that directly or indirectly come into contact with issues of ethics, privacy, and security related to participants in the context of any research conducted using a living lab approach. It also includes thoughts about the importance of information and communication technologies on the public domain and their implications for privacy. The importance of ethical awareness is even more evident in the case of enterprises where elderly and disabled users are present. For that reason, there are several legal tools that can be applied in a living lab setting, tools that are pertinent even though they may not have been conceived specifically to regulate this environment, may be used in a precarious way and might be temporary as well, just to proceed with the setting up of the living lab. However, the specificity and idiosyncrasy of this research environment demands further efforts to establish procedures that will facilitate both the proper set-up and smooth running of the living lab.]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/47/107298 Albert Ferrer Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):63-82Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/63/107299 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/63/10729933 63 82 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/63/107299 Albert Ferrer

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In this article, Albert Ferrer culminates a long series of articles published in the Catalan review Ars Brevis, edited by the Blanquerna Foundation of the Ramon Llull University, Barcelona. In his previous exposition, Prof. Ferrer outlined the development of holistic and spirituallybased education in India and Europe until the advent of the materialistic pedagogy of the modern school system. In this paper, Prof. Ferrer delves further into a philosophical understanding of this integral kind of education on spiritual grounds, focusing on the teachings of the greatest spiritual master of contemporary India, Sathya Sai Baba, who recently passed away after 86 years of service to humanity. In particular, Prof. Ferrer elucidates the transition from the modern utilitarian approach to values and ethics to the new paradigm emerging from the dialogue between quantum/ new physics and mystical philosophy. Through this fascinating dialogue, ethics reveals its mystical roots and the ethical or axiological perspective turns into ontology and metaphysics. From the liberal vision of moral choice and tolerance, we evolve towards an exploration of Reality, a holistic and multidimensional Man and Cosmos in interdependence. Integral education in human values becomes the natural pedagogy of this new paradigm, the merger between science and spirituality.]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/63/107299 Ferran Requejo Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):83-98Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/83/107300 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/83/10730033 83 98 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/83/107300 Ferran Requejo

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This chapter links a conception of global justice, moral cosmopolitanism, with plurinational democracies. After giving a brief description of moral cosmopolitanism (section 1), I go on to analyse notions of cosmopolitanism and patriotism in Kant's work (section 2) and the political significance that the notion of unsocial sociability and the Ideas of Pure Reason of Kant's first Critique have for cosmopolitanism (section 3). Finally, I analyse the relationship between cosmopolitanism and minority nations based on the preceding sections. I postulate the need for a moral and institutional refinement of democracies and international society that is better able to accommodate national pluralism than has so far been achieved by traditional liberal constitutionalism and cosmopolitanism (section 4).]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/83/107300 Domingo García-Marzá Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):99-114Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/99/107302 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/99/10730233 99 114 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/99/107302 Domingo García-Marzá

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The current process of globalization has produced an increase in the societal role played by companies, in their power and consequently in their responsibility. Any ethical reflection on companies must therefore be able to rise to the challenge of justifying a critical approach which enables us to rethink the role and thus the legitimacy of companies in modern society, and at the same time provide a universalist approach able to explain moral judgments and the problems of the moral validity of business activity within global economic contexts. This paper sets out to present the essential characteristics of a business ethics which unifies these two approaches. It puts forward a proposal for an integrative business ethics which applies the Discourse Ethics developed by J. Habermas to the business environment. It is defined as integrative since it takes the internal connection between ethics and business as its starting point and because it knows that as an applied ethics, it must combine strictly normative approaches with descriptive ones. As with all proposals, many questions remain open and many issues have yet to be resolved. Despite this, this paper sets out to show that discourse ethics provides a sound platform on which to consider questions of the legitimacy of and consequently trust in our organizations in plural and global contexts.]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/99/107302 Carla Gràcia Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):115-134Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/115/107303 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/115/10730333 115 134 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/115/107303 Carla Gràcia

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Nowadays, it seems easy to regard some of the values and purposes that have led us to the society we live in today as dysfunctional. However, searching for a villain that justifies all our pain and confusion in recent years is a vain undertaking. It is imperative to protect the good in our society and to discover what we need to improve and accomplish. In this sense, spirituality is our unresolved issue. The purpose of this article is to survey the different deliberations about capital as a measurable value of companies and to explore whether spiritual capital can be a new one, or even more importantly, an important one.]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/115/107303 Josep Manel Ballarín Francesc-Xavier Marín Angel-Jesús Navarro Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):135-154Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/135/107305 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/135/10730533 135 154 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/135/107305 Josep Manel Ballarín, Francesc-Xavier Marín, Angel-Jesús Navarro

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Human beings inhabit a symbolic reality that articulates meaning. This is culture understood as a web of meanings that actually builds our identity by providing guidance in the complexity of our environment. It is the complex interplay between identity and alterity, between interiority and exteriority, between familiarity and strangeness. Worldviews set up borders that delimit one's own world and others' ground by establishing stereotypes and prejudices. This article presents the results of a research project on prejudices towards the other in students majoring in Education and Psychology with the aim of offering some reflections on what is at stake in social exclusion policies.]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/135/107305 Natalia Cugueró-Escofet Josep Maria Rosanas Article Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):155-170Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/155/107307 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/155/10730733 155 170 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/155/107307 Natalia Cugueró-Escofet, Josep Maria Rosanas

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Management control systems include justice implicitly, as they believe that the market provides what is just or not through the market value. Psychological literature has deemed that people can perceive which procedures and decisions are just or not. In this paper, we argue that management control systems need to include justice criteria explicitly, beyond mere market value, in both their design (formal justice) and use (informal justice). This will increase the probability that organizational members will collaborate to achieve organizational goals.]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/155/107307 Mar Rosas Book Review Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):172-174Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/172/107308 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/172/10730833 172 174 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/172/107308 Mar Rosas

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]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/174/107309 Jordi Rierai Romaní Book Review Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):178-180Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/178/107310 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/178/10731033 178 180 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/178/107310 Jordi Rierai Romaní

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]]> Mon,18 Feb 2013http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/178/107310 Llorenç Sagalés Cisquella Book Review Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 2012 3(3):180-184Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/180/107311 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/180/10731133 180 184 http://www.rljae.org/text.asp?2012/3/3/180/107311 Llorenç Sagalés Cisquella

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