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.
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...
Integral Dynamics: Political Economy, Cultural Dynamics and the Future of the University
1st Edition
By Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer, Samuel D. Rima
March 11, 2013
The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies. It seeks a specific way forward for each society, fundamentally different from, but drawing on, its past. Nearly ...
Spiritual Capital: Spirituality in Practice in Christian Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael O'Sullivan, Bernadette Flanagan
September 12, 2012
Spiritual Capital seeks to re-focus discussion on core social values, on individuals' value systems and the internal dynamics that impel human beings to live by truth, goodness and love. This book defines, refines and disseminates the concept of spiritual capital. Contributions by ...
Finance and Society in 21st Century China: Chinese Culture versus Western Markets
1st Edition
By Junie T. Tong
July 28, 2011
In this revealing book Junie Tong reflects on the role of banking and finance in China. The author adopts a critical perspective that views the societal as well as economic functioning of banking and finance. Finance and Society in 21st Century China considers how far the modern economy is ...