Books in the Transformation and Innovation series

In Inclusive Organizational Transformation, Dr Rica Viljoena acknowledges that diversity of thought presents both gifts and challenges to leadership in multi-national organizations. Here, Inclusivity is positioned as a radical transformational methodology with the purpose of unleashing the benefits of engagement and diversity of thought.

Despite economic growth in countries like the author's native Nigeria, poverty and unemployment blight the lives of the majority of citizens. In An Integral Approach to Development Economics, Basheer Oshodi examines modernization theories, dependency theories, world system theories and emerging 21st century economic theories.

Schieffer and Lessem introduce a groundbreaking development framework and process to address the most burning issues that humanity faces. While conventional top-down, outside-in development has reached a cul-de-sac, a new, integral form of development is emerging around the world. Integral Development uniquely articulates this emergent approach.

The author has worked as a management consultant in the Arab Middle East. This title acknowledges that businesses and other organizations in the region face urgent concerns in relation to quality and transformation, and argues that these issues might be more appropriately addressed by the application of an Islamic Management Model.

Paves the way for a sustainable approach to economics, building on the diverse economic approaches from all over the globe. This title introduces the most evolved economic perspectives, bringing them into creative dialogue to produce an integral, dynamically balanced approach.

Offers a fresh perspective from an English economic and monetary historian. The author asks: Why did the banks stop lending to one another, and why now? Was it merely a matter of over-loose credit due to the relaxation of traditional prudence, or did global finance find itself at its limits?

Suitable for policy makers, development and donor communities, funding agencies and banks in the Islamic World, this title addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective. It offers conventional Western ways of thinking about sustainability and presents insights inspired by Islamic worldviews.

In this book, the authors illustrate, with reference to a wide range of cases, how the transformation of work - based in Western dominant models of capitalist wage-labor - is taking place in particular parts of each of the four worlds.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series. It continues to build on from the previous two works on Community Activation, Awakening Integral Consciousness, as well as preceding the fourth and final book on Embodying Integral Development. This book serves as a follow up to the author's approach to integral research and development, economics and enterprise, contained within the Innovation and Transformation series, and as a focus for how put all of such "CARE-fully" to work.

The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions. Building on the integral heritage of Ronnie LessemΓÇÖs previous work through Trans4mΓÇÖs Centre for Integral Development, here he makes the case for ΓÇÖintegral advantageΓÇÖ, a philosophy inclusive of nature and culture, technology and economy, altogether accommodated by an integral polity. Moreover, and as will be illustrated in each of the cases of the five BRICS countries, each one is an integral entity in its own particular right, and needs to be viewed, and duly evolved, as such. In the final analysis, he argues, then, that around the world, the failure of a society to develop is not due to its economic limitations, in isolation, but to the failure of nature and culture, technology and economy, to co-evolve in unison, under the rubric of an integral polity, altogether aligned with that particular society. Drawing on the approach he has developed towards the release of a societyΓÇÖs genius, in each case, he demonstrates how the pursuit of integral advantage may actually arise. Most specifically, he indicates how a balance between the spiritual and the material, on the one hand, and the natural and the social, on the other, needs to be achieved.

Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century--and Integral Polity applies this notion to business, economics and enterprise.

The theory of integral dynamics is based on the view that the development of individual leaders or entrepreneurs requires the simultaneous development of institutions and societies. It seeks a specific way forward for each society, fundamentally different from, but drawing on, its past.

Reflects on the role of banking and finance in China. This title adopts a critical perspective that views the societal as well as economic functioning of banking and finance. It considers how far the modern economy is disconnected from Chinese culture and history and the problems this separation may cause.

Presents a detailed theoretical framework for balanced socioeconomic development relevant to sustainable development of the global community, explaining the pivotal concepts on which it is based, and the institutional and practical implications of adopting the paradigm, including new approaches to taxation, employment, and global governance.