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New Business of Business: Taking Responsibility for a Positive Global Future [Paperback]

Maya Porter (Editor), Willis Harman (Editor)

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Publication Date: January 1, 1997

Written for businesspeople and general audiences, The New Business of Business is a collection of 20 articles designed to stimulate dialogue on what the new role of business should be. As people become increasingly aware of worsening national and global environmental, institutional, and social problems, this book points out that business is well positioned to address these concerns.

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The New Business of Business: Sharing Responsibility for a Positive Global Future, edited by Willis Harman and Maya Porter, is a thought-provoking collection of 21 essays on the evolving responsibilities and developing opportunities faced by business as the new century approaches. The disparate thoughts from some of today's foremost students of worldwide socioeconomic trends, which originally appeared in the World Business Academy's quarterly journal, paint an insightful picture of the role of business in the years ahead.

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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; 1st edition (January 1, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576750183
ISBN-13: 978-1576750186
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,218,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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During its history as a nation, American society has undergone drastic changes that closed some opportunities and opened up others, profoundly affecting the lives of great numbers of people: The substitution of machines for human labor Read the first page

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This book cites 34 books:

Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century by Willis Harman on page 31, page 169, and Back Matter
Birth of a New World: An Open Moment for International Leadership (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series) by Harlan Cleveland on page 25, and page 43
For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future by Herman E. Daly on page 144, and page 156
The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin on page 10, and page 13
The Global Brain Awakens by Peter Russell on page 141, and page 223

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Asian Post-Crisis Management: Corporate and Governmental Strategies for Sustainable Competitive Advantage by Usha C. V. Haley on page 426
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