Scalzo, Germán
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Preferred name
Scalzo, Germán
Official Name
Scalzo Molina, Germán Roberto
ORCID
0000-0003-4176-793X
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FQV-2175-2022
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57189442501
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Item type:Publication, Making Wiser Decisions in Organizations: Insights from Inter-Processual Self Theory and Transcendental Anthropology(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025); Aoiz, MartínCurrent approaches in decision making, influenced by rationalist and pragmatist paradigms, offer notable strengths but fail to adequately address human growth, moral depth, and relational dynamics. Rationalist models emphasize universal principles and cognitive processing, offering structured approaches at the expense of human relationality and cultural diversity. Pragmatist approaches focus on adaptability and social context and provide flexibility, but their morally relativistic stance leads to ethical inconsistency. To address these gaps, we integrate Leonardo Polo’s transcendental personalist philosophy and the Inter-processual Self (IPS) Theory to redefine decision making as an opportunity for personal and relational growth. Grounded in anthropological insights, this framework prioritizes the human person as the center of moral action and decision making, fostering personal and relational growth through the transcendentals of personal love, knowledge, and freedom. We argue that this enriched perspective addresses critical limitations of existing models, enabling decision making to serve as a source of systemic wisdom and sustainable growth. By applying this framework to organizational contexts, we show how it enhances personal growth, and the persons’ transcendent motivation for virtues involving inter-relational growth and wisdom. Our approach offers a holistic and transformative lens to rethink decision making as a catalyst for individual and collective flourishing, providing actionable insights to meet contemporary challenges in business and society. © The authors © Springer. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, CSR and Virtue Ethics: The common good of firms, markets, and civil society(2021)This chapter probes the social responsibility of firms using a virtue ethics approach and the concept of the common good. In particular, it highlights the contrasting assumptions of mainstream approaches and the common good of the firm approach to explaining how the latter—rooted in Aristotelian virtue ethics—provides an original conception of social responsibility. A common good approach to social justice understands social relationships essentially as duties to which one voluntarily adheres; when said justice and commitment to the common good flourishes, community ensues. Finally, a virtue ethics approach to corporate social responsibility establishes three forms of duty and social responsibility to stakeholders, including those who make up the firm, those who maintain a market-based relationship with it, and those who are related to the firm as part of society’s civic sphere.10 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Génesis del pensamiento económico: dos visiones en pugna(2015)In the late eighteenth century, following the publication of The Wealth of Nations (Smith, 1776), a paradigm shift emerged in the concept of the economy, characterized by a progressive “naturalization” or “depersonalization”, which is commonly accepted as the genesis of economics. From this perspective, the economy is considered a necessary process that responds to laws that are as objective as physical laws and "discovering them" becomes the economist’s proper task. This article challenges this apodictic view through an approach to the conception of economic activity in the very origins of philosophical thought – specifically in Plato and Aristotle, who both offered original proposals that structure the origin of the economic thought. This article thus aims to show that there is a close relationship between the notion of economy and the underlying anthropological conception. © Cauriensia20 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Virtues and the common good in production(2019)This chapter explains the nature of leadership and why ethics is critical both in the behavior of the leader and the study of leadership. It also explains leadership from the perspective of Aristotle, MacIntyre and Catholic Social Teaching. The chapter discusses the virtues that today's leaders need. It integrates notions of human dignity and the common good into a framework for virtuous leadership. The chapter examines the leader: why ethics and the virtues are critical and how the leader's character relates to the firm in particular and society in general. This is because good corporate performance needs good leadership. Leadership literature has focused on leaders' personal characteristics, leader-related skills and behaviors. There is also a stream of research on differentiating transformational from transactional leaders. Transactional leaders guide followers towards established goals by clarifying role and task requirements. ©2018 Taylor and Francis Group.7 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Balancing Work, Family, and Personal Life in the Mexican Context: The Future of Work for the “COVID-19 Generation”Intergenerational talent management—i.e., attracting and retaining employees across generations and with different motivations—is one of companies’ greatest challenges. The expectations that recent generations bring with them have pushed culture in the direction of work-family balance, which is now seen as a key tool for human resources departments in charge of creating support mechanisms to attract and retain the next generation of workers. This trend has been reinforced by the changes brought about in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to this shift, and inspired by the challenges that our “new normal” posits, this chapter presents research results from a survey conducted in Mexico with respondents from generations Y and Z. The survey results offer important insight into how these generations perceive work-life balance, as well as the expectations that young Mexicans between the ages of 18 and 30 hold in terms of family and work.39 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, La frónesis aristotélica como factor clave para el liderazgo en la empresa creadora de conocimiento según Ikujiro Nonaka(2019); Fariñas, GuillermoSome Western organizational studies scholars have proposed that Aristotelian Phronesisrepresents a way of including practical reason in research on business topics such as decision-making, knowledge management, ethics and leadership. Ikujiro Nonaka, a Japanese scholar with notable theoretical and practical contributions to knowledge creation in organizations and with extensive experience in Japanese corporations, has joined this group of academics. As an Eastern thinker, he takes on a Western classical tradition, namely the virtue of Phronesis, making an important contribution to the application of ethical notions to business practice, in this case knowledge management. To locate his conceptualization of Aristotelian practical wisdom, we briefly describe his theory of knowledge creation, pointing to phroneticleadership skills as essential drivers of knowledge creation in organizations. Furthermore, we assess Nonaka’s incorporation of practical rationality from the point of view of the Western classical tradition.To conclude, we discuss the scope and limits of the use of Phronesisin Nonaka´s contribution, and ultimately suggest that incorporating the will helps us to understand prudence as a virtue and not just as an intellectual habit © Cuadernos De AdministraciónScopus© Citations 12 45 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Innovation as a practice: Why automation will not kill innovation(2023)Scopus© Citations 1 18 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, La lógica del don en las relaciones humanas: Economía y reciprocidad a la luz de los radicales polianos(2022); Moreno-Almárcegui, AntonioAimed at questioning the primacy of the contract over the logic of the gift in modernity, this paper compares and contrasts three archetypes of social relationships in light of the Polian radicals, as well as the types of reciprocity that derive from each of them. Modern, closed-dual reciprocity is opposed to open-triadic reciprocity, which characterizes gift-based relationships, both in their classical and Christian versions. This paper concludes that only the Christian radical, that of the person, can integrate the logic of the gift with a radical sense of freedom. Said radical starts with an anthropology that complements the practice of virtues as a way of moral perfection with an openness to transcendence and to aiding the neediest among us. © 2022 Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra. All rights reserved.Scopus© Citations 1 10 2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Pricing for a Common Good: beyond Ethical Minimalism in Commercial Practices(2021)Scopus© Citations 3 11 2