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Beyond the Bottom Line: Socially Innovative Business Owners

Book information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2000
ISBN
1567204147, 9781567204148, 9780585384627
Open Library ID
OL16989548M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
39 MB (40538571 bytes)
Pages
191\204
Topic
Business
Library
Mexmat
Time added
2011-02-23 10:11:24

Description

After providing historical perspective on the phenomenon of business owners using their firms as laboratories for social innovation by discussing 19th-century British industrialist Robert Owen, Quarter (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, U. of Toronto) presents 11 case studies of contemporary innovators from the US, UK, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. An interpretive framework for these studies based on four propositions concludes the volume. Proposition one states that business success requires having the control that allows initiating innovations. The others relate to innovation-sustaining conditions.

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