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Socio-economics Toward a New Synthesis
376 Pages
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Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
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This work is organized in seven sections around major themes of socio-economics. The first section outlines socio-economics in an historical perspective, drawing on the "Methodenstreit" in the German school of economics at the turn of the century. Four additional essays view economic behaviour from the perspective of psychology, sociology and values outside the realm of economics. The second... Read more
I: Introduction; 1: Socio-Economics; 2: Socio-Economics; II: Socio-Economics—A General Approach; 3: “The Battle of the Methods”; 4: The Economic Person in Sociological Context; 5: Contemporary Liberals, Communitarians, and Individual Choices; 6: The Social Construction of Economic Institutions; III: Utility, Goals, and Values; 7: Rethinking Utility Theory; 8: The “Theory as Map” Analogy and Changes in Assumption Sets in Economics; 9: Values and Principles; IV: Socioeconomic Perspective on Executive Leadership and Entrepreneurship; 10: Stakeholders, Shareholders, Managers; 11: Entrepreneurship, Resource Cooptation, and Social Contracting; 12: A New Entrepreneurial Paradigm; V: The Role of Institutions; 13: Competition and Markets; 14: Human Values and Economic Behavior; VI: Corporate Culture; 15: Organizational Culture and “Collective” Human Capital; 16: Corporate Culture and Financial Performance; VIII: Boundaries; 17: The Boundaries of the Firm; 18: Interorganizational Bonds and Intraorganizational Behavior; VIII: The Next Steps; 19: Socio-Economics
Biography
Amitai Etzioni, Paul R. Lawrence
