Beyond the bottom line : socially innovative business owners / / Jack Quarter

• Autore: Quarter Jack
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Quorum Books, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4/08
• Soggetto topico: Social responsibility of business; Industrial management - Social aspects; Industrial management - Employee participation; Businesspeople - Attitudes; Business ethics
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p.[185]-191) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Beyond the Bottom Line -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Robert Owen: The Historical Tradition -- ROBERT OWEN -- POST-OWEN AND THE UTOPIAN TRADITION -- AN INTERPRETIVE FRAMEWORK -- CONCLUSION -- 2 The John Lewis Partnership -- REMUNERATION -- INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY -- MOVEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- THE JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP -- NOTES -- 3 The Scott BaderCommonwealth -- THE SCOTT BADER COMMONWEALTH -- INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY -- GROWING DISSATISFACTION -- CONCLUSION -- THE SCOTT BADER COMMONWEALTH -- NOTES -- 4 Endenburg Electric -- BACKGROUND -- INTRODUCING SOCIOCRACY -- Consent -- The Circle -- Interlinking of Circles -- Election of Functionaries -- MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES -- CONCLUSION -- ENDENBURG ELECTRIC -- NOTES -- 5 Allied Plywood -- THE CAPITALIST MANIFESTO -- THE ESOP -- ALLIED PLYWOOD -- THE SALE -- DECISION MAKING -- CONCLUSION -- ALLIED PLYWOOD -- NOTES -- 6 The Baxi Partnership andthe Tullis Russell Group -- THE BAXI PARTNERSHIP -- THE SALE -- GOVERNANCE -- ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS -- THE BAXI PARTNERSHIP -- TULLIS RUSSELL2 -- SUCCESSION -- PROVISIONS OF THE SALE -- SHARING EQUITY -- ADDITIONAL COMMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- TULLIS RUSSELL -- NOTES -- The Baxi Partnership -- The Tullis Russell Group -- 7 Harpell's Press -- SELF-STUDY -- THE SOCIAL CRITIC -- POST-SUN LIFE -- THE TRANSFER -- CONCLUSION -- HARPELL'S PRESS -- NOTES -- 8 The Body Shop -- THE FORMATIVE YEARS -- THE SOCIAL AGENDA -- THE NEW ICON -- CONCLUSION -- THE BODY SHOP -- NOTES -- 9 Inmate Enterprises and K. T. Footwear -- INMATE ENTERPRISES -- STARTING OUT -- MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES -- INMATE ENTERPRISES -- K. T. FOOTWEAR LTD. -- FUTURE PLANS -- CONCLUSION -- K. T. FOOTWEAR -- NOTES -- 10 Wilkhahn -- SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- THE ECOLOGICAL PLAN -- CONCLUSION -- WILKHAHN -- NOTES -- 11 An Interpretative Framework -- PROPOSITION 1 -- PROPOSITION 2. ; SOCIAL MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES -- PROPOSITION 3 -- a. Ownership -- b. Decision making -- c. Relationship to the community -- PROPOSITION 4 -- UNDERSTANDING THE INNOVATORS -- NOTES -- References -- Index -- NOTE -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond the bottom line
• ISBN: 0-313-00472-2; 0-585-38462-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811055303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II