Business Ecology : Giving Your Organization the Natural Edge
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Book Description
Business ecology is a new field that synthesizes centuries of cultural wisdom, a close observation of natural systems, and proven business success strategies, such as strategic planning and total quality management. It emulates nature's systems design to provide a harmonious, relationship-oriented approach that reveals how your organization really works. This book applies these principles to help you integrate profitability, stakeholder relations, and environmental performance ¦ giving your organization the natural edge in emerging ecological economy.
Business ecology measures not just financial but overall viability by revealing vital flows and relationships that sustain your business. It is a lens for seeing those intangible elements of your organization's design -- such as core values, value-creation cycles, and innovative thinking ¦ that are essential factors shaping its success.
The Business Ecology Network (BEN), founded in 1995, is a catalyst for life-sustaining enterprise. BEN is a learning community for leaders and managers who want to apply a new way of thinking ¦ business ecology ¦ to create new, sustainable opportunities for their businesses and non profit organizations. Visit the BEN web page at http://naturaledge.org.
· Applies nature's organizing elegance to everyday business situations
· Offers the reader profit AND environmental integrity
· Unique and valuable blend of traditional business concepts with cutting-edge field of ecology
Book Info
A new field for sustainable organizational management and design, based on the principle that organizations are most successful when their development and behavior are aligned with their core purpose, values and environmental performance. Paper. DLC: Industrial organization.
Business Ecology: Giving Your Organization the Natural Edge,Joseph M Abe,David A. Bassett,Patricia E. Dempsey,Butterworth-Heinemann,0750699558,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business And Society,Business/Economics,Development - Business Development,Entrepreneurship,Industrial management,Industrial organization,Management - General,Organization Development,Applied ecology,Business & Economics / International,Environmentalist, conservationist & Green organizations,Management & management techniques
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