Miriam Gerstein’s scientific contributions

... An internal Ford memo (known as the infamous Pinto memo) was leaked to Mother Jones Magazine that proved that the company knew of the problems with the fuel tank before the Pinto was introduced but performed a cost/benefit analysis that suggested that it was cheaper to pay liability for burn deaths (cost of human life was pegged at $200,000) and injuries ($67,000) rather than spending $11 per car to correct the defect for more than 12 million automobiles. More than two dozen people were killed or injured as a result of the Pinto's fatal design flaw before the car was recalled by Ford (Friedman et al., 2020). ...

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Deadly Consequences of Emphasizing Profits over Human Life: How Corporate Greed Has Caused the Death of Millions

... om accounting's three-way match process used in purchasing to carefully outline problems and challenges in US healthcare. Discussion and ways to adapt the popular accounting framework for healthcare are presented within the historical context of the changing healthcare reimbursement and payment process. Areas for future research are also included. Miriam Gerstein and Hershey H. Friedman. (2015). Using Disasters to Teach Ethics in Accounting and Business. Journal of Accounting,Ethics and Public Policy,16(3), 427-470 http://ssrn.com/abstract=2998222 ...

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ACCOUNTING, ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY: Annotated Bibliography 1998-2022

... Strong competitive drivers are causing significant changes in the healthcare delivery industry, prompting existing organizations to investigate how to increase EIWB to accelerate innovative approaches to meet market demands, build customer relationships, and increase performance, market share, and profitability while lowering the cost of doing business (Gerstein and Friedman 2017). Organizational leaders must foster an innovative (constant research and development) culture that responds to fluctuating market demand for the organization to survive (A. ...

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Total quality management implementation practices and customer satisfaction: the role of innovative employee behavior and employee empowerment

... This is grossly wrong. The ideal leaders expected in the knowledge society must be those who believe in service as leaders who set ethical practice at the top, have a vision and know how to communicate it, care about people and their success, believe in empowering and maximizing employees' satisfaction and encouraging teamwork, and believe they have the duty of stewardship, considering the higher values of truth, justice, peace, compassion, and human dignity as found in numerous studies (Gerstein et al. 2016;Levine 2015;Greenleaf 1978;Greenleaf 1977;Hess 2013;Spears 2010;Lynch and Friedman 2013). This is certainly true for application in universities where the major asset is the intellectual abilities of its lecturers. ...

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Ethics power for effective leadership in the academia

... These authors, furthermore, examine how compassion could manage to have a beneficial effect on organizations, employees and clients. According to Friedman and Gerstein (2017), compassion can be a powerful ingredient that makes an organization thrive. ...

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Organizational Culture Artifacts and Compassionate Human Resources Practices in a Healthcare Organization

... Organizational culture matters for organizational performance because it represents a system of control consisting of shared norms and expectations that define the conduct of organizational members, aligning behavior without extensive monitoring and sanction systems, and allowing members' sense of autonomy to be preserved (Chatman et & Chatman, 1996). For example, an organization's culture can signal that money-making is to be valued above all other concerns, including ethical ones (Friedman & Gerstein, 2016;Glaser et al., 2016) or, alternatively, that community concerns and employee wellbeing are paramount (Wilburn & Wilburn, 2014). The organization's culture defines which people will be rewarded, how resources will be allocated, and what characteristics define competence, reputation, and esteem; in these ways and others, culture represents an organization-level power system. ...

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The social alignment theory of power: Predicting associative and dissociative behavior in hierarchies

... Yet, the purpose of higher education to instill subject matter expertise into learners is no longer enough. The evolution of societal demands has moved universities to the much broader arena of preparing well-rounded adults who are competitive in the global job market (Gerstein & Friedman, 2016). Universities are expected to create career-ready global citizens, who can effectively navigate the transition from the classroom to the workplace. ...

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Experiential Learning Practices and Career Courses: Predictors of First Destination Outcomes

... Given the development of increasingly advanced times, the accounting profession has become so attached to technology that manual recording is no longer used. As a millennial professional accountant, the challenges faced are not only required to have creativity, critical thinking, and innovation [9]. Rather, competent abilities in the use of technology-based software. ...

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Facing Industry Revolution 4.0 for Millennial Accountants

... Kim, Natter, & Spann, 2009). This mechanism has been already tested in many industries (for example, training services, catering businesses, the music industry, the publishing industry and entertainment) (Tuttle, 2014), but its characteristics and conditions for implementation are neither thoroughly recognised by practitioners, which is indicated by the ongoing discussion among managers (compare: Bertini & Koenigsberg, 2014), nor by researchers (compare: Friedman & Gerstein, 2014). The state of affairs described above indicates the requirement to identify the knowledge advancement in a systematic way and, consequently, the general purpose of this article is to identify the level of literature advancement regarding PWYW and to determine desirable directions for knowledge development in this field. ...

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Pay-what-you-want as a participative pricing mechanism: Meta-analysis of development and knowledge dissemination

... The idea of not oppressing strangers is mentioned dozens of times in Scripture (Friedman & Gerstein, 2015). "Strangers" are people who are different, and oppression against them includes everything from racism to xenophobia. ...

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"Being on God’s Side": Biblical Leaders on Wokeness, Social Justice, Cancel Culture, White Privilege, and Other Controversial Terms