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The Roles Played by Moral Capital in Business Operations

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Marx’s clear interpretation of “spiritual productivity” helps us realize the roles played by scientific morality as a kind of spiritual productivity in the development of social productivity, and at the same time, guides us to develop the socialist market economy.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 23, People's Publishing House, 1972, p. 59.

  2. 2.

    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 23, People’s Publishing House, 1972, pp. 228–229.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 46 (II), p. 201, Vol. 26 (I), People's Publishing House, 1972, p. 422.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 46 (II), People's Publishing House, 1972, p. 285.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 25, People's Publishing House, 1972, p. 97.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 25, People's Publishing House, 1972, p. 97.

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    Jiangsu Social Sciences, Issue 1, 1994.

  8. 8.

    Jiangsu Social Sciences, Issue 3, 1998.

  9. 9.

    Jiangsu Social Sciences, Issue 2, 2001.

  10. 10.

    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 44, People's Publishing House, 2001, p. 582.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 44, People's Publishing House, 2001, p. 195.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 4, People's Publishing House, 1995, p. 532.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 44, People's Publishing House, 2001, p. 211.

  14. 14.

    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 3, People's Publishing House, 2002, p. 453.

  15. 15.

    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 46, People's Publishing House, 2003, p. 96.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 31, People's Publishing House, 1998, p. 102.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 44, People's Publishing House, 2001, p. 235.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 3, People's Publishing House, 2002, pp. 463–464.

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    Lenin highly praised the “voluntary labor on Saturday” event and extracted some statistical charts illustrating the multiple production efficiency brought by the “enthusiasm of morality”. From such charts, we can easily find some “empirical data”.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 3, People's Publishing House, 2002, p. 453.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 44, People's Publishing House, 2001, p. 59.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 12, People's Publishing House, 1998, p. 251.

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    Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Vol. 30, People's Publishing House, 1995, p. 539.

  24. 24.

    Morality and Spiritual Productivity, Jiangsu Social Sciences, Issue 2, 2001.

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    Data source: Social Responsibility Report 2011, China Minsheng Bank.

  26. 26.

    Formula: the average percentage of nine companies = (the total number of employees of the first company x sampling percentage + the total number of employees of the second company x sampling percentage + … + the total number of employees of the ninth company x sampling percentage)/ the total number of the nine companies.

  27. 27.

    By rights, the answers to the two questions should be either “yes” or “no”, instead of having most respondents choose “yes” and a few respondents choose “no” or “I don’t know”. The reason is that, first, the respondents have different educational backgrounds which make them understand the same thing differently; and second, some employees do not know the relevant information clearly enough due to the company’s lack of promotion.

  28. 28.

    The data of Jiangsu Province’s Da Niang Dumpling come from Appendix IV of Economic Benefits and Social Responsibility, Dou Yanguo and Han Yun, Academia Press, 2007.

  29. 29.

    The data of Jiangsu Province’s Da Niang Dumpling come from Appendix IV of Economic Benefits and Social Responsibility, Dou Yanguo and Han Yun, Academia Press, 2007.

  30. 30.

    Corporate Integrity and its Mechanism for Implementation– Take Haier as an example, Moral Capital and Business Ethics, Issue 6, 2003.

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Wang, X. (2015). The Roles Played by Moral Capital in Business Operations. In: On Moral Capital. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45544-9_4

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