Format:
1 online resource (123 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781783531462
,
9781783531486
Content:
This provocative thought-piece from world leader in corporate responsibility Philippe de Woot suggests that an evolution of the system is possible, but it requires a more radical approach. It is only by changing its culture in depth that enterprise can restore the ethical and political dimension to its acts
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Author's note -- Introduction -- 1. Drifts and deviations of the market economy -- 1.1 A high-performing model -- 1.2 Globalisation and autonomy of economic power -- 1.2.1 Increasing power of economic players -- 1.2.2 Power disconnected from politics and ethics -- 1.3 Unwanted systemic effects, drifts and deviations -- 1.3.1 Damage to the planet -- 1.3.2 Poverty, inequality, precariousness -- 1.3.3 Weakening of social ties -- 1.3.4 Financial domination -- 1.3.5 Behavioural drift -- 2. Rethinking the purpose of business -- 2.1 Economic creativity: specific function of business enterprise -- 2.2 Ambiguity of economic and technical creativity -- 2.3 Transforming creativity into progress -- 3. A responsible entrepreneurial culture -- 3.1 Restoring ethical and civic dimensions to corporations -- 3.1.1 Back to ethics -- 3.1.2 Back to citizenship and the 'political' -- 3.2 Areas of progress: entrepreneurship, leadership, statesmanship -- 3.2.1 Entrepreneurship: the entrepreneur, creator of progress and not just profit -- 3.2.2 Leadership: leaders, architects of creativity and collective consciousness -- 3.2.3 Statesmanship: executives as citizens, societal dimension and new consultation
Additional Edition:
Print version Woot, Philippe de Rethinking the Enterprise Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2014 ISBN 9781783531462
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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