Foundations of Business
Foundations of Business
About the Book
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Purpose
- An interdisciplinary approach
- How this book is structured
- How to use this book
- Sources of case material
- Acknowledgements
- Business
- Business as Enterprise
- Organization
- Management
- Strategy and Change
- Accounting
- Economics
- Market Economics
- Production and Productivity
- Management Accounts
- Capital and Investment
- Econonic Appraisal
- Economic Forces
- Other Economic Notions
- Ethics
- Importance of ethics
- Basic Notions
- Ethical Standards (what makes a good company)
- Sources of Ethical Distortion
- Mechanisms for Ethical Rectification
- Other Ethical Issues
- Social Science
- Social Structure
- Social Phenomena
- Explaining Social Structure and Behaviour
- Anthropology
- Organizational Psychology
- Sociology
- Systems Theory
- What is a system?
- Social System
- Communication
- Control Systems
- System Dynamics and Goal-Directed Behaviour
- Second-Order Cybernetics
- System Perspectives
- Further Topics
- Making Sense of Business
- An interdisciplinary approach
- Clockwork or Snakepit
- Multiple Perspectives and Narratives
- Categorical frameworks
- Three levels of analysis
- Appendix
- Guidance for teachers
- Typical Module Objectives
- Tutorials
- Success Criteria
- General remarks
- Guidance for Students
- Background
- Skills
- Additional guidance for university students
- Additional guidance for IT students and practitioners
- Reading
- Primary Reading
- Secondary Reading
- Index
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