Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes
Author: James L Gibson
Overview: Managing people and their behavior in organizations is one of the most challenging tasks anyone could face. Gibson’s Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes, Thirteenth Edition, presents theories, research results, and applications that focus on managing organizational behavior in small, large, and global organizations. It is organized and presented in a sequence based on behavior, structure, and processes. Each part is presented as a self-contained unit and can therefore be presented in whatever sequence instructors prefer. Organizations is easily adaptable to individual preferences. This edition emphasizes that the most successful managers in the global economy will be those who can anticipate, adapt, and manage change.
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Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense
Author: John Ikerd
"In order to maintain a new economics of sustainability, social and ethical values must be reintegrated into capitalist economics, thus restoring a sense of balance into the economic system that ensures that communities the world over will benefit and thrive. Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense suggests how capitalism can become a vehicle for these ends." Both a penetrating critique of capitalism and an exploration of its vast and untapped potential for maximizing human welfare, Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense is written for a wide audience, including students and professors whose fields and interests embrace development, economics, ecology, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Those concerned with the future of our planet and the continued viability of global capitalism will regard this book as a vital addition to their libraries.
Table of Contents:
| 1 | The neglected principles of economics | |
| 2 | The pursuit of enlightened self-interests | |
| 3 | The challenge of sustainable development | |
| 4 | The inadequacies of ecological economics | |
| 5 | Economics as a life science | |
| 6 | Managing the sustainable organization | |
| 7 | The three economies of sustainability | |
| 8 | Managing the moral economy | |
| 9 | Managing the public economy | |
| 10 | Managing the private economy | |
| 11 | A closing commentary on sustainable capitalism |
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