IDEALS: Managing Human Systems and Advancing Humane Ideals

Alan E Singer
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Alan E Singer: University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Chapter 6 in Integrating Ethics with Strategy:Selected Papers of Alan E Singer, 2007, pp 97-112 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThis chapter is extracted and adapted from “Global strategy and ethics: managing human systems and advancing humane ideals,” Business Ethics Quarterly,2006. That paper reviewed and constructively critiqued Milan Zeleny's recent book: “Human Systems Management: Integrating Knowledge, Management and Systems,” World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2005. In the critique, two variants of capitalism are described: Human Systems Management (HSM) and Humane Ideals Management (HIM). They are compared with Financial-Market-Capitalism (i.e. the Anglo-US variant, or business-as-usual). HSM and HIM both embody distinctive ways of thinking about the relationship between business strategy and ethics.

Keywords: Business Ethics; Strategy; Management Science; Corporate Social Responsibility; Poverty; Health; Decision Making; Corporate Governance; Global Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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