Beyond the bottom line
Subtitle: socially innovative business owners
By: Jack Quarter
Publisher: Quorum Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Social responsibility of business -- Case studies; Industrial management -- Social aspects -- Case studies; Industrial management -- Employee participation -- Case studies; Businesspeople -- Attitudes -- Case studies; Business ethics -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Description: "Jack Quarter examines the practices of business owners who use their firms as laboratories for social innovation. After placing this phenomenon in historical perspective and discussing the 19th century British industrialist Robert Owen, he provides eleven case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries - the UK, US, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and New Zealand."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[185]-191) and index