1st Edition

Innovation Driven Institutional Research Towards Integral Development

By Ronnie Lessem Copyright 2017
182 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

182 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series. It continues to build on the previous two works, C ommunity Activation and   A wakening Integral Consciousness , as well as preceding the fourth and final book, E mbodying Integral Development . This book serves as a follow-up to the author's approach to integral research and development, economics and enterprise,... Read more

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Prologue: innovation driven institutionalized (social)research – towards an inter-institutional genealogy

PART I

Grounding of institutionalized research

1 Constituting the South: a historical perspective on institutionalized research

2 Sekem Commonwealth: a commonwealth perspective on institutionalized research

3 European Trinity: a classical perspective on creative innovation

PART II

Emergence of institutionalized research

4 Communitalism: a communal and relational perspective on Pax Africana

5 Social ecology: Integral Green Zimbabwe – African phoenix rising

6 Integral development: creating ecosystems, renewing self, organization and society – regenerating knowledge, actualizing development

PART III

Navigation of institutionalized research

7 Integral research paradigm: technological/social innovation – integral research perspective

8 Integral academy: a developmental perspective

9 Reinventing knowledge: integral dynamics

PART IV

Effect of institutionalized research

10 Social economy: social economics to cooperative enterprise

11 Knowledge creation: operations to knowledge creation

12 Solidarity economy: comparative to integral advantage in Brazil

Epilogue: accrediting innovation driven institutionalized research

Index

Biography

Ronnie Lessem is the Co-Founder of Trans4m, Geneva. He has been a management educator and consultant in Africa, Asia, Europe and America and is the author of over thirty books on the development of self, business and society.