ISBN:
9780415199278
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (247 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Social Economics
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Social Economics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Human Firm
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Human capital
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Human capital
;
Industries ; Environmental aspects
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Issues management
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Industrial sociology
;
Social responsibility of business
;
Industries ; Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book challenges mainstream neo-classical perspectives on the firm. John Tomer argues that in the age of globalization and rapid technological change, an understanding of business behaviour and government policy toward business requires an appreciation of the firm's human dimension. 〈EM〉The Human Firm〈/EM〉 integrates economic analysis with sociological, psychological, managerial, ethical and other interdisciplinary perspectives
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; About the author; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Embeddedness and organizational capital: applying two key concepts; The human firm in the socio-economy: embeddedness and socio-economic failure; Organizational capital and joining-up: linking the individual to the organization and to society; Competitiveness: rational decision making, flexibility and integration, and leadership; Rational organizational decision making in the human firm: a socio-economic model
Description / Table of Contents:
Strategy and structure in the human firm: beyond hierarchy, toward flexibility and integrationBeyond the machine model of the firm: toward a holistic human model; Responsibility in relationships with stakeholders: community, employees, customers and government; Social responsibility in the human firm: toward a new theory of the firm's external relationships; The human firm in the natural environment: a socio-economic analysis of its behavior; Beyond transaction markets, toward relationship marketing in the human firm: a socio-economic model
Description / Table of Contents:
A new rationale for industrial policy: developing the capabilities of the learning firmConclusion; Summing up: firms, policies and economic systems in a new economic age; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
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