Berrett-Koehler, Fachbücher, Business as an Agent of World Benefit: The New Theory of Business in an Age of Massive-Mobi...

Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity. Through the exploration of robust cases and stories packed with deep insight and vital science, this extraordinary collection explores how we can adapt our notions of value, markets, and models of cooperation and collective action to create a world where economies and businesses excel, all people thrive, and nature flourishes. In part I, &ldquo The Business of Business Is Betterment,&rdquo the contributors show how enterprises today are further developing&mdash and even taking a quantum leap beyond&mdash the multistakeholder logic of &ldquo shared value creation.&rdquo Part II, &ldquo Net Positive = Innovation&rsquo s New Frontier,&rdquo is focused on what companies can and are doing to move away from &ldquo doing no harm&rdquo to playing an active role in solving environmental, social, and economic problems. The final section, &ldquo Ultimate Advantage: A Leadership Revolution That Is Changing Everything,&rdquo looks at new leadership paradigms&mdash characterized by unexpected qualities like virtue, love, compassion, and connection&mdash that are crucial to creating engaged, empowered, innovative, and out-performing enterprises. This book is designed to galvanize change and unite a global community of inquiry and action. It establishes the conceptual cornerstones for a new kind of business practice that will lead the way to an equitable, sustainable, and flourishing future.