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The intent of business : organizing for a more sustainable future

Title
The intent of business : organizing for a more sustainable future / Gregory Gull.
Author
Gull, Gregory, 1947-
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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ix, 200 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"Traditional precepts of economic and business practice rest upon a very limited view of both humankind and Nature. People are cast as the most intelligent animal destined to seek pleasure and avoid pain with the life-defining aim of maximizing one's material self-interest. While this worldview afforded tremendous wealth accumulation, it has led to a reality of exploitation wherein care and concern for human development and Nature are essentially non-existent--an unsustainable reality.This book explains that it need not be this way. A more developed understanding shows people are intelligent, self-aware, responsible, creative, self-initiating and meaning seeking beings. It is argued this must inform economics and business practice. To this end, Gregory Gull synthesizes insights from varied disciplines such as: physics, mythology, psychology, philosophy, statistics, and systems theory to re-think the very intent of business and its corresponding organizing and management principles. With this, our future will be sustainable and experiences meaningful. "--
Subject
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture
  • Social responsibility of business
  • Sustainable development
  • Management > Moral and ethical aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. A Historical Perspective -- 2. Practicing The Philosophy -- 3. The Effects Are Personal -- 4. On Being Human -- 5. Prelude to Change -- 6. The Essential Changes -- 7. An Energic Perspective -- 8. Organizing Managing for Viability.
ISBN
  • 9781137352071 (hardback)
  • 1137352078 (hardback)
LCCN
  • 2013037943
  • 99956541776
OCLC
  • 848162898
  • ocn848162898
  • SCSB-9403125
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries