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[Norbert Bollow]

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I had written:

> > Actually I think what I need right now is people who will listen to
> > my ideas, share their thoughts, and pray with me.  If you are willing
> > to "walk with me for a stretch of road on my journey", simply as a
> > brother who has no interest in ever getting directly involved in my
> > business, that'll be of immense value to me!

Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> replied:

> Count me in on this part.

Wow... I really appreciate your, and Tim Young's support.  It means
_a_lot_ to me!

> What I can do is observe the process with a prophetic eye and a strong
> belief that what we discuss here can play a part in fulfilling the Great
> Commission.

I agree, and in fact Dan 2:44-45 and Mt 28:18-20 are my main sources
of motivation for all this.

> > My personal interests which I will like to bring into this business
> > are:
> > 
> > (1) Technical applications (in Free Software) of the study of moral
> >     economics.  With "moral economics" I mean the study of how the
> >     economy works from the perspective of someone who believes that
> >     greed is a very real temptation, but giving in to greed is morally
> >     wrong.  Potential technical applications of such theories include
> >     business directories as well as solutions to the spam problem.
> 
> This is what grabs me. I've seen too little on this. Have you read
> sources

Yes... much of what I have read is IMO pretty far off the mark though.

Worthwhile sources of inspiration include http://www.whwd.org/ (that
in fact is the source for the article by Doug Perry which I posted in
the initial message of this thread) and this paper:

  Seung Ho Park, Gerardo R. Ungson:  Interfirm rivalry and managerial
  complexity: A conceptual framework of alliance failure.
  In:  Organization Science: A journal of the Institute of Management
  Sciemnces Jan/Feb 2001, Vol.12, Issue 1, pp37-53.

> have you written sources on this?

Not really, but I'm working on a paper "Economic Networks, Temptations
of Greed, and Business Process Integration via Webservice Protocols"
which should be finished by end-January (because that's the submission
deadline for a conference where I plan to submit it)... I'll of course
be happy to send you a copy. :-)

Blessings and greetings,
Norbert.

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Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
Tel +41 1 972 20 59        Fax +41 1 972 20 69       http://norbert.ch
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