Books in the Transformation and Innovation series

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.

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.

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.

The concept of transformation has long been known to the sciences and has been around in the popular vocabulary for several decades. This title provides leaders, students of leadership, managers and change agents with a trans-culturally tested, integrated approach to leadership and management.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

How can social research be turned into social or indeed 'integral' innovation? This book explains how the knowledge creation that underpins transformative processes occurs. It shows how research has to be transformative, rather than just informative if it is to contribute usefully to building integrated and sustainable enterprises.

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.