ECOLOGY: An Ecological Understanding of Global Business

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

Chapter 7 in Integrating Ethics with Strategy:Selected Papers of Alan E Singer, 2007, pp 113-142 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThis chapter is based upon “Global business and the dialectic: towards an ecological understanding,” Human Systems Management21(4), pp. 249–265, 2002. It discusses the dialectical tensions that are still very evident in almost all international business episodes, as well as in the perceptions and value-priorities of once-separated civilisations. Although these have hardly ever been mentioned in the mainstream business media, as well as in professional education, much has been communicated (and replicated) on the related subjects of business-ecology, product-ecology, knowledge-ecology and ecology-of-mind. These latter ideas together with the sciences of life and mind that support biotechnology and information technology are all related to the principle of dialectic (intuitively, historically and formally). Accordingly, it is argued that much greater emphasis should now be placed upon dialectical reasoning in contemporary strategic business analysis and political calculation.

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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