The Evolution of Enterprise Management

Gerardo Rivera Ungson and Sixto K. Roxas

Chapter 5 in From Alleviation to Empowerment:Ruminations on Poverty, Capitalism, and Communities, 2026, pp 95-119 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: A cursory observation of contemporary events reveals that we live in a business civilization. Business is the most powerful organization in the world. Its methods have come to stand for everything hard-nosed and rigorously efficient and have become the exemplar for all institutions. “Business-like” has become equated with systematic, orderly, and disciplined behavior. Its language has become the currency in all of human activity, which must have clear products, cater to markets, be cost-efficient, and show returns at the bottom line…

Keywords: Poverty; Poverty Alleviation; Poverty Eradication; Inter-generational Poverty; Environmental Degradation; Sustainable Development; Community Empowerment; Social Accounting; Human Settlements; Development Economics; Unsustainable Development; Ecological Sustainability; Capitalism; Free Market; Economic Orthodoxy; Classical Economics: Marx; Radical Economics; Bretton Woods; Sectoral Development; Sectoral Specializations; Neo-liberalism; Enterprise Management; Modern Corporation; Modern Enterprises; Microfinance; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprises; Capacity Building; Conditional Cash Transfer; Mainstream Growth Theory; Biogenesis; Mechanistic Worldview; Jurgen Habermas; Spectrum of Consciousness; Communitarian Movement; Moral Capitalism; Humane Economy; Enterprise Logic; Communitarian Logic; Ekistics; Enterprise Accounting; Community-based Accounting System; Social Accounting; Valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 O15 O18 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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