The Ecological Vision: Reflections on the American Condition

ISBN-13: 9780765807250 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 474 str.

Peter F. Drucker

Opis

Periods of great social change reveal a tension between the need for continuity and the need for innovation. To comprehend these changes as history and as guideposts to the future, Peter F. Drucker has, over a lifetime, pursued a discipline that he terms social ecology. The writings brought together in The Ecological Vision define the discipline as a sustained inquiry into the man-made environment and an active effort at maintaining equilibrium between change and conservation.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: American Experiences  1. The American Genius is Political  2. Calhoun's Pluralism  3. Henry Ford: The Last Populist  4. IBM's Watson: Vision for Tomorrow  5. The Myth of American Uniformity  Part 2: Economics as a Social Dimension  6. The Economic Basis of American Politics  7. The Poverty of Economic Theory  8. The Delusion of Profits  9. Schumpeter and Keynes  10. Keynes: Economics as a Magical System  Part 3: The Social Function of Management  11. Management's Role  12. Management: The Problems of Success  13. Social Innovation: Management's New Dimension  Part 4: Business as a Social Institution  14. Can The Be "Business Ethics"  15. The New Productivity Challenge  16. The Emerging Theory of Manufacturing  17. The Hostile Takeover and its Discontents  Part 5: Work, Tools and Society  18. Work and Tools  19. Technology, Science and Culture  20. India and Apprpriate Technology  21. The First Technological Revolution  Part 6: The Information-Based Society  22. Information, Communications and Understanding  23. Information and the Riture of City  24. The Information-Based Organization  Part 7: Japan as Society and Civilization  25. A View of Japan Through Japanese Art  26. Japan: The Problems of Success  27. Behind Japan's Success  28. Misintepreting Japan and the Japanese  29. How Westernized are the Japanese?  Part 8: Why Society is not Enough  30. The Unfashionable Kierkegaard  Afterword: Reflections of a Social Ecologist

O autorze

Peter Drucker