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Arcelor Mittal
Author_Philippe de Woot
Behavioural Drift
Bertrand Collomb
business ethics
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corporate citizenship
Corporate Social Responsibility Movement
Cultural Inspiration
Current Economic Model
Danone Communities
economic power dynamics
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ethical leadership models
Fair Operating Practices
global market transformation
Globalised Neoliberal Model
High Risk Society
Human Suffering
Improved Development Model
India's Rural Market
Large NGO
Large Offshore Wind Farms
Open World Trade
Philippe De Woot
Post-classical Civilization
Prometheus Bound
responsible enterprise culture in society
Sustainable Development Model
techno-scientific innovation
Teilhard De Chardin
Unwanted Systemic Effects
Product details
- ISBN 9781783531462
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The challenges of the 21st century are immense: implementing a more sustainable development model, maintaining markets and societies as open as possible, deploying entrepreneurial dynamism in the service of the common good, boosting employment, reindustrializing Western countries while promoting the development of emerging countries. ... How can we better focus our extraordinary creative capacity to meet the challenges ahead?If there is a key trend in our time, it is that of the progress of science and technology. This trend has become a steamroller, whatever the vagaries of history and economic conditions. It is enterprise that transforms, often as soon as they emerge, scientific knowledge and technologies into products and services. By mastering the methods and tools of techno-science, it has the power of knowledge behind its economic strategies. Techno-science constantly provides new opportunities and more powerful competitive weapons. Enterprise is therefore the main mediator between science and society. Yet is it an agent of progress?This essay explores the key role enterprise could play in the transformation of the economic system. By changing its culture, it can be a powerful tool to better meet the global challenges of our century. De Woot proposes that a spirit of enterprise, creativity and innovation are necessary responses to societal challenges. Although the current economic model is the source of major deviations, enterprise in the broadest sense can help correct many of them. From *problem* it can become *solution*.
PHILIPPE DE WOOT is Emeritus Professor at Louvain Catholic University in Belgium, where he taught Business Policy, Strategic Management and Business Ethics. He is actively committed to researching and promoting CSR.
