Oklahoma City University

About: Oklahoma City University is a education organization based out in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supreme court & Comparative law. The organization has 240 authors who have published 421 publications receiving 6923 citations.

The Corporate Common Good: The Right and Obligation of Managers to Do Good to Others

Abstract: In this Article we articulate a model of managerial freedom - and even obligation - to engage in philanthropic activity differing in significant respects from that described by Germain Grisez in his influential work of Christian ethics "The Way of the Lord Jesus: Difficult Moral Questions." We argue that Grisez's conception of a corporation as essentially ordered to the economic benefit of its stakeholders unnecessarily restricts a corporate manager's freedom of action. While Grisez denies that bald profit maximization is an appropriate standard for economic activity, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he eventually falls back into what we understand to be an enlightened commitment to profit maximization. We argue, however, that that conception conflicts with the inference about the nature of a corporation that a rational actor would draw from the actual behavioral conduct of modern public corporations, their public statements, and their representations to shareholders. Further, Grisez's account conflicts with fundamental statements of corporate law and seemingly, with Catholic social teaching. Based on these alternative theoretical and behavioral sources, it is difficult to accept Grisez's enlightened neo-classical model. Instead, these sources support a different view of the nature of corporations. In this expanded view, a corporation, as a corporate legal person, is generally allowed an analogous moral and economic freedom, similar to that enjoyed by an individual person. In fact, if this were not the case, at least some of the charitable conduct and contributions of almost every public corporation would be put into question. Subject to the weak condition that Managers provide a fair long-term return to their stakeholders, and not a maximized return, no reason exists to deny corporate Managers the right, and even in certain cases the moral obligation, to employ corporate resources in philanthropic conduct, or more simply, to love one's neighbor.

Early Liaisons: East India Company, Native Wives, and Inscription in the Seventeenth Century

Abstract: This essay examines how one seventeenth-century native wife, the unnamed daughter of Mubarak Shah, one of Akbar's courtiers, entered the archives of the East India Company. Married to two different...

Using a shared, remote cluster for teaching HPC

Abstract: Production clusters are a common environment for programming assignments in courses involving High Performance Computing, but they can present challenges, especially in the context of use by courses at institutions remote from these resources. In the context of the Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative, the University of Oklahoma has been providing its centrally managed clusters for use by courses statewide. This paper explores mechanisms for using this shared, remote resource for teaching, and advocates in favor of such use.

Ethical Views, Religious Views, and Acceptance of Robotic Applications: A Pilot Study

Abstract: This paper reports a pilot study investigating relations of people’s moral and religious beliefs with their acceptance of specific suggested scenarios for human-robot interaction (HRI) involving life-like personal robots. Data collected via a multiple-choice survey that was focused upon these three classes of variables were subjected to k-means cluster analysis, disclosing some interesting prototype patterns of responses that recommend specific hypotheses for follow-on research.

An attempt to transfer a position discrimination habit via rna extracts

Abstract: RNA extracted from trained and untrained (control) rats did not demonstrate statistically significant transfer of learning effects when injected intraperitoneally into naive recipient rats. Since the direction of the results consistently favored the “trained RNA extract” recipient, it is suggested that future investigation of biochemical transfer utilize more rigorous training for donor animals and larger RNA dosage levels for injections of recipient animals.