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Author Erdal, David.

Title Beyond the corporation : humanity working / David Erdal
Published London : The Bodley Head, 2011

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 W'PONDS  658.1147 Erd/Btc  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 271 pages ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Predictions and Reality -- 1.Owning a Business, and Making It Perform -- 2.Founders -- 3.Predictions -- 4.Creative and Inventive? -- 5.Decisions, Decisions -- 6.The Discreet Charm of the Employee-Owner -- pt. TWO Having a Job -- Prologue: The Deal -- 7.Working for Shareholder Value, Under Capital Market Discipline -- 8.Power and Accountability - Corporate Governance - and CEO Pay -- 9.How the Employment Contract Came to Be -- 10.Thinking It Through -- pt. THREE Humanity in Partnership -- 11.John Lewis: Partners at Work -- 12.Leadership -- 13.Lining Up the Arrows -- 14.Governance and Power -- 15.A Thousand and One Ways of Structuring Ownership -- 16.Culture -- pt. FOUR Humanity Flourishing -- 17.Hunters and Gatherers Go to Market
Summary Tells the story of ordinary people who share the ownership of the businesses where they work. This book contains case studies as well as interviews with a range of people, whose inspiring stories of success fly in the face of received wisdom
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliography (pages [257]-261) and index
Subject Business enterprises.
Employee ownership -- Case studies.
Employee ownership.
Incentives in industry.
Management -- Employee participation.
Genre/Form Case studies.
LC no. 2015301053
ISBN 9781847921093