Collaborative Enterprise : Creating Values for a Sustainable World.
Title:
Collaborative Enterprise : Creating Values for a Sustainable World.
Author:
Tencati, Antonio.
ISBN:
9783035300055
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (434 pages)
Series:
Frontiers of Business Ethics ; v.9
Frontiers of Business Ethics
Contents:
Contents -- Preface ix -- Acknowledgements xiii -- Part I The Collaborative Enterprise -- 1. Antonio Tencati and Laszlo Zsolnai The Collaborative Enterprise Framework 3 -- Part II Towards a Progressive Economics -- 2. Knut J. Ims and Ove D. Jakobsen Competition or Cooperation? A Required Shift in the Metaphysics of Economics 17 -- 3. Hendrik OpdebeeckThe Collaborative Enterprise as a Linkage between Principle and Practice 39 -- 4. Joel Magnuson Community-Based Social Systems of Production 63 -- 5. Aloy Soppe Sustainable Finance and Ethics 77 -- 6. Stefano Zamagni The Cooperative as a Collaborative Enterprise 97 -- Part III Working Models of Collaboration -- 7. Antonio Tencati and Ulisse Pedretti Coop in Italy 117 -- 8. Laszlo Zsolnai and Laszlo Podmaniczky Community-Supported Agriculture 137 -- 9. Luigino Bruni The Economy of Communion 151 -- 10. Knut J. Ims and Ove D. Jakobsen Fair Trade Production 163 -- 11. Antonio Tencati The Slow Food Movement 183 -- 12. Steen Vallentin and David Murillo Government, Governance and Collaborative Social Responsibility 209 -- 13. Tibor Hejj and Rita Hejj Socially Responsible Clusters 229 -- 14. Ove D. Jakobsen and Øystein Nystad Collaborative Waste Management 251 -- Part IV The Context for Collaborative Business -- 15. Johan Wempe Chain Responsibility and the Collaborative Enterprise 267 -- 16. Zsolt Boda The Ethics of Working with Civil Society Organizations 289 -- 17. Maurits Sanders Collaborative Enterprise:Next Stage in Public-Private Partnerships? 313 -- 18. Jane Collier Nurturing Society from the Bottom Up:The State and Social Enterprise 335 -- 19. Francesco Perrini and Clodia Vurro Collaborative Social Entrepreneurship 351 -- Part V The Way Ahead -- 20. Laszlo Zsolnai and Antonio Tencati Beyond Competitiveness: Creating Values for a Sustainable World 375 -- About the Contributors 389 -- Index 409.
Abstract:
Competitive economics produces an enormous abundance of goods and services but at an intolerable environmental and social cost. Competition has become an end in itself, which leads to detrimental effects on nature, society and future generations. A change of paradigm is needed. Business should respect the ecological and social limits in which it operates and embed its activities in the natural and social systems. This book promotes a collaborative attitude of doing business based on a positive view of the self and others. Theoretical contributions, reflections, cases, examples, and initiatives collected in the book show that a collaborative enterprise is not only possible but also a feasible and desirable alternative to the current, self-defeating, managerial models. Innovative firms seeking to build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with all of their stakeholders while producing values for their business ecosystems represent well-grounded hopes for a really sustainable future.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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