This book challenges the traditional models of modern economy, business education and management, which are devoted to the concepts of scarcity, competition, growth and yield. It deconstructs the spiral of acceleration in which technological shifts concerning global markets and enterprises...

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Organizational strategy -- pt. 3. Finance and economics -- pt. 4. Organizational behaviour -- pt. 5. Marketing and innovation -- pt. 6. HRM and employee relations -- pt. 7. The ethical future?

Events such as Trafigura's illegal dumping of toxic waste in Côte d'Ivoire and BP's environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have highlighted ethical issues in international business at a time when business leaders, academics and business schools were reflecting on their own...