Transformation and Innovation
About the Book Series
This series on enterprise transformation and social innovation comprises a range of books informing practitioners, consultants, organization developers, development agents and academics how businesses and other organizations, as well as the discipline of economics itself, can and will have to be transformed. The series prepares the ground for viable twenty-first century enterprises and a sustainable macroeconomic system. A new kind of R & D, involving social, as well as technological innovation, needs to be supported by integrated and participative action research in the social sciences. Focusing on new, emerging kinds of public, social and sustainable entrepreneurship originating from all corners of the world and from different cultures, books in this series will help those operating at the interface between enterprise and society to mediate between the two and will help schools teaching management and economics to re-engage with their founding principles.
Integral Knowledge Creation and Innovation: Empowering Knowledge Communities
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Mamukwa
May 31, 2023
This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to today. A product of integral research, it covers the process of creating new knowledge, leveraging existing knowledge, sometimes resulting in cutthroat...
Evolving Work: Employing Self and Community
1st Edition
By Ronnie Lessem, Tony Bradley
June 30, 2020
The idea of Self and the authenticity of particular identities have been rapidly dissolving in the acids of post-modern globalising capitalism. The hegemony of patterns of work, wage-labor and the operation of labour markets in the American West (and European North) has ridden rough-shod over ...
Finance at the Threshold: Rethinking the Real and Financial Economies
1st Edition
By Christopher Houghton Budd
May 25, 2017
Every banking crisis, whatever its particular circumstances, has two features in common with every previous one. Each has been preceded by a period of excessive monetary ease, and by ill thought out regulatory changes. For many the recent hiatus in inter-bank lending has been seen as a blip - ...
Innovation Driven Institutional Research: Towards Integral Development
1st Edition
By Ronnie Lessem
March 16, 2017
This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series. It continues to build on the previous two works, Community Activation and Awakening Integral Consciousness, as well as preceding the fourth and final book, Embodying Integral Development. This book serves as a follow-up ...
Community Activation for Integral Development
1st Edition
By Ronnie Lessem
December 02, 2016
As mass global and social media communications spread across the globe, we are seeing a need for a change in the way we approach issues of political and economic development. The effects of these growing communications are that, on the one hand, we see the significance of place rising, while on the...
Islam and Sustainable Development: New Worldviews
1st Edition
By Odeh Rashed Al-Jayyousi
November 16, 2016
In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective. Islam is sometimes viewed as a challenge, threat and risk to the West, but here we are reminded that the celebration of cultural diversity is a ...
An Integral Approach to Development Economics: Islamic Finance in an African Context
1st Edition
By Basheer A. Oshodi
October 19, 2016
Developing economies such as those in sub-Saharan Africa are searching for realistic economic policy prescriptions. Despite economic growth in countries like Nigeria, poverty and unemployment blight the lives of many, in the midst of plenty. Simultaneously, much neo-classical economic thought is ...
Islamic Values and Management Practices: Quality and Transformation in the Arab World
1st Edition
By Maqbouleh M. Hammoudeh
August 26, 2016
The author of this thought provoking addition to Gower's Transformation and Innovation Series has worked as a management consultant in the Arab Middle East for 25 years. In Islamic Values and Management Practices she acknowledges that businesses and other organizations in the region face urgent ...
Integral Renewal: A Relational and Renewal Perspective
1st Edition
By Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer
August 12, 2016
In 2010 Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer published their seminal work on Integral Research and Innovation, whereby they identified the four R’s; relational and renewal, reason and realization based research paths that altogether encompass the major qualitative research methods and ...
Integral Development: Realising the Transformative Potential of Individuals, Organisations and Societies
1st Edition
By Alexander Schieffer, Ronnie Lessem
July 27, 2016
Alexander Schieffer and Ronnie Lessem introduce a groundbreaking development framework and process to address the most burning issues that humanity faces. While conventional top-down, outside-in development has reached a cul-de-sac, a new, integral form of development is emerging around the world. ...
Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies
1st Edition
By Ronnie Lessem
February 08, 2016
The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions. Building on the integral heritage of Ronnie ...
Integral Polity: Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy
1st Edition
By Ronnie Lessem, Ibrahim Abouleish, Louis Herman
January 12, 2015
Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment. A fascinating approach to how we can begin to tackle this challenge is presented by the authors of Integral Polity. Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and...