Wicked Entrepreneurship: Defining the Basics of Entreponerology (eBook)

Richard J. Arend (Autor)

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2015 | 2015
VIII, 127 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-50332-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores 'wicked entrepreneurship', or the proliferation of evil that harms our economic and social transactions, as the greatest socio-economic problem of our time and offers strategies to identify and address this phenomenon.

Richard J. Arend is Professor of Strategy and Management at University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA.

Inhalt

Cover 1
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 7
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction: Why This Book, and What Is Entreponerology? 10
0 Part I’s Preconditions—Cruel Wicked Entrepreneurship and the Conditions for Its Existence 17
1 Part I’s Who—The Characteristics of Perpetrators and Victims, and How They Can’t Be Used 20
2 Part I’s When—The Timing of Evil Transactional Behavior, and Why Such Evil Will Always Exist 27
3 Part I’s What—The Stakes Involved and What Value and Harm Are Transferred in the Phenomenon 31
4 Part I’s Why—The Motivations Driving the Perpetrators of Evil 35
5 Part I’s How—The Brutal Mechanics of Deceptive Transactions 38
6 Part I’s Stability—Why Economic Inefficiencies Are Not Quickly Eliminated 47
7 Part I’s Where—The Characteristics of a Corruptible System 51
8 Part I’s Examples—Cases of the Phenomenon, from Local to International in Effect 57
9 Part I’s Possible Solutions—A Typology and Analysis of Methods to Address the Phenomenon 62
10 Part I’s Measures—Assessing Whether There Is a Problem, and How Bad It Is, and for Whom 66
11 Part I’s Conclusions—The Good News, the Bad News, and the Need for More News 70
12 Part II’s Complex Wicked Entrepreneurship—An Evil Context at the Heart of Innovative Activity 74
13 Part III’s Cool Wicked Entrepreneurship—Completing the Analytical Triad, and Some Possible Good Arising from the Evil 104
Appendix 1: When Markov Chains Fail in the Digital World 122
Appendix 2: A Typology of Wicked Business Models 124
Bibliography 127
Index 134

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2015
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 127 p. 1 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: business • Business Ethics • Corruption • Entrepreneur • Entrepreneurs • Entrepreneurship • ethics • Evil • Game Theory • Innovation • Methods • Strategy • Wicked
• ISBN-10: 1-137-50332-7 / 1137503327
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-50332-9 / 9781137503329