Natural Corporate Management: From the Big Bang to Wall Street - Couverture souple

Frederick, William C.

9781906093808: Natural Corporate Management: From the Big Bang to Wall Street

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ISBN 10 : 1906093806 ISBN 13 : 9781906093808

Editeur : Greenleaf Publishing, 2012

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

This groundbreaking new book by business scholar William C. Frederick presents an innovative, exciting even revolutionary view of corporate management and the challenges it confronts in today s world. The author proposes a management paradigm shift transforming the way corporations do business. Management scholarship and research may well be rechanneled from current orientations to new models, concepts, and theories of what it takes to manage corporations in a planetary world confronting climate change, energy crises, and securing the well-being of all global citizens. Natural Corporate Management (NCM) is an awareness and an acceptance by the managers of today s business corporations of the close functional linkage between natural forces and human economic choices. NCM is not a set of techniques or methods but is a growing consciousness by managers of the presence and influence of nature in all managerial decisions. The book s central theme is that business and nature are locked into an evolutionary partnership that defines all aspects of corporate management, including decisions, policy, goal-seeking, organizational design, workplace behavior, and productive operations. This partnership of Nature and Nurture yields economic, social, and ecological dividends for corporations, their stakeholders, and the global community. An Evolutionary Cascade depicts the various phases of evolutionary change physical, organic, genetic, human, neurological, symbolic beginning with the Big Bang origin of the Universe and continuing to modern times. These evolutionary events collectively influence the operational activities of all business firms. A Natural Theory of the Firm summarizes the NCM approach, as well as the mind-set of corporate managers, and the bio-socio-economic consequences of their decisions. This theoretically-innovative book proposes an agenda of corporate actions to promote long-term sustainability and economic

Biographie de l'auteur :

Bill Frederick's scholarly fields of study are corporate social responsibility, business ethics, managers' values, and evolutionary interpretations of business behavior. Books reflecting these interests include Values, Nature, and Culture in the American Corporation and Corporation, Be Good! The Story of Corporate Social Responsibility plus several editions of the textbook Business and Society . As a consultant to foundations and governments, he has made ethnological studies of management education in Spain, Italy, Egypt, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Australia, and has advised business schools in Ecuador and Nigeria. He holds a PhD in economics and anthropology from the University of Texas-Austin, and is Professor Emeritus, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. More information is available at www.williamcfrederick.com.

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