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Author Choudhury, Masudul Alam

Title God-Conscious Organization and the Islamic Social Economy
Published Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Islamic Business and Finance Series
Contents Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Adaptation of the monotheistic methodological worldview to the unity of "everything"; The contribution of this book in the field of socio-scientific systems; A brief overview of the book; Chapter 1 Contrasting Epistemologies of Organizational Behaviour; Introduction; Objective; Significance of the study; Explanations of selected terms; Organization within institutionalism
Herbert Simon and Oliver E. Williamson on the concept of organizational behaviouralMeaning of organization, institution and institutionalism; Organization and institution; Institutionalism; Examples: Contrasting the exogenous and endogenous treatment of ethics; Example 1; Example 2; Example 3; Example 4; Example 5; Example 6; Example 7; Summary: Organizational theory and consciousness in the mainstream economic approach; Institutionalism and organizational behaviour according to dialectical materialism; Neo-Marxist tendencies in explaining organizational and institutional change
The dialectical understanding of God-consciousness in evolutionary learning methodologyKarl Popper's dialectical social model; The social economy; Society in contrasting forms; Social economy; Examples of God-conscious organization and the social economy; Organizational behaviour in the light of the Qur'anic Chapter Al-Nahl (the Bee); Organizational behaviour in the light of the Qur'anic Chapter Jumu'a (the Friday congregational prayer); The social economy according to the Qur'anic meaning of God-consciousness in institutionalism
The generalized phenomenological model of unity of knowledge in the Islamic caseConclusion; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Religion-Inspired Business; Introduction; The research problematic; Historical context; Grameen; Mondragón; Historical evolution; First stage (1941-56): Education of young leaders; Second stage (1956-73): The initial business phase; Third stage (1973 to the present): The mature phase of the "cooperative experiment"; Reasons for the initial success; The structure and data today; Does the "God Presence" make a difference?; Business interdependence; Final end
ProfitThe final end and transcendence; References; Chapter 3 The Tawhidi Methodology with Implications on Islamic Economics as an Embedded Socio-scientific System: Contra-Islamic Neoclassical Reasoning; Meaning of Tawhid as monotheistic functional ontology; Configuring the steps of the Tawhidi methodology; Problem-solving in the Tawhidi methodological worldview contra neoclassical economics; Example 1: The generalized worldview of causality intra-system and inter-system: trade versus interest; Example 2: Dynamic preferences in evolutionary learning space
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Subject Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Finance -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Welfare economics.
Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
Economics -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Finance -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Knowledge, Theory of (Islam)
Welfare economics
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1317126378
9781317126379