Mark Edwards

Organizational Transformation for Sustainability

An Integral Metatheory

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Produktbeschreibung

Organizational Transformation for Sustainability: An Integral Metatheory offers some innovative answers to the big questions involved in organizational sustainability and the radical changes that organizations will need to undergo as we move into the third millennium. This new approach comes from the new field of integral metatheory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415801737
• ISBN-10: 0415801737
• Artikelnr.: 27870306

Autorenporträt

Mark Edwards is a registered psychologist with a Masters degree in developmental psychology and a PhD (awarded distinction) in organisation theory from the University of Western Australia. He has worked with people with disabilities for more than 20 years. He currently teaches business ethics at the Business School, University of Western Australia and metatheoretical studies at the John F. Kennedy University in California. His academic publications have been in the areas of futures studies, leadership, management and organisation theory and integral metatheory.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword. Introduction: An Integrative
Pluralism 1. The Need for Metatheory in the Study of Organisational
Transformation 2. Metatheoretical Domain and Definitions 3. "The View from
Somewhere Else": In Defence of Metatheorising 4. Stories of Transformation
5. A General Method for Metatheory Building 6. A Multiparadigm Review and
Analysis of Organisational Transformation Theories 7. The Network of Lens
Relationships 8. Sustaining Visions: An Integrative Metatheory for
Organisational Transformation 9. Metatheoretical Evaluations 10. Towards an
Integrative Meta-Studies. Appendices. References. Index