The Human Firm: A Socio-Economic Analysis of Its Behaviour and Potential in a New Economic Age Book

	List of illustrations
	About the author
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Embeddedness and organizational capital: applying two key concepts	17
2	The human firm in the socio-economy: embeddedness and socio-economic failure	19
3	Organizational capital and joining-up: linking the individual to the organization and to society	37
Pt. II	Competitiveness: rational decision making, flexibility and integration, and leadership	57
4	Rational organizational decision making in the human firm: a socio-economic model	59
5	Strategy and structure in the human firm: beyond hierarchy, toward flexibility and integration	80
6	Beyond the machine model of the firm: toward a holistic human model	101
Pt. III	Responsibility in relationships with stakeholders: community, employees, customers and government	117
7	Social responsibility in the human firm: toward a new theory of the firm's external relationships	119
8	The human firm in the natural environment: a socio-economic analysis of its behavior	141
9	Beyond transaction markets, toward relationship marketing in the human firm: a socio-economic model	158
10	A new rationale for industrial policy: developing the capabilities of the learning firm	178
Pt. IV	Conclusion	193
11	Summing up: firms, policies and economic systems in a new economic age	195
	Notes	205
	Bibliography	210
	Index	222