A volume in Research in Management Consulting Series Editor Anthony F. Buono, Bentley University This volume is part of the ongoing collaboration between the RMC series and the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR), a French intervention-research think tank co-directed by Henri Savall and Veronique Zardet. Building on an earlier collaboration on the ISEOR approach - Socio-Economic Intervention in Organizations: The Intervener-Researcher and the SEAM Approach to Organizational Analysis (IAP, 2007) - Buono and Savall bring together over 30 talented intervener-researchers...

This volume continues to build on the relationship between the Research in Management Consulting series and the intervener-researchers at the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR) in Ecully, France, extending that partnership to our recent work with the French Foundation for Management Education (FNEGE), a foundation dedicated to closing the gap between the teaching and practice of management in France. As part of the Foundation's multifaceted activities-which range from seminars and an advanced training initiative for French doctoral students to joint programs with...

This book presents the complete and pioneering works of the great Spanish economist, GermanBernacer (1883-1965), to an English audience for the first time. Bernacer, the first director ofthe Research Service of the Bank of Spain (1930-55), inspired Keynes' theory but was also amajor critic and opponent of it. A macroeconomist by trade, Bernacer's major theory related torecurring crises, which he believed were inherent in the existence of speculative markets such asproperty, works of art, long term currency markets, commercial trading, materials, and energy.Bernacer believed that these...