Henry's own excellent homepage where you can find all his blogs, books (also those which are freely available) and many articles

We recommend strongly to download his book “Rebalancing Society” which can be found on this page in addition to further comments, insightful articles, and suggestions for action

Our absolute favourite: make sure you sign the "Declaration of Interdependence"!

If you are interested in coaching and development with Henry and with Phil please visit this page for further details on the global  "Coaching Ourselves" initiatives

Finally, you can get an overview and links to his scientific work here

Rebuilding companies as communities.

Henry Mintzberg on CSR as irresponsible management.

Who should control the corporation (hint: the government will not be able to do this job alone)

Geoff More inspired by Henry Mintzberg looks at corporate control from a virtue ethics perspective. Reference: Moore, G. (2003). Hives and horseshoes, Mintzberg or MacIntyre: what future for corporate social responsibility?. Business Ethics: A European Review, 12(1), 41-53.

Henry Mintzberg refers to this excellent article of John Kania and Mark Kramer on how to bring movements together for collective impact.

And of course we must give a call out for Henry's unique beaver sculpture collection!

All newer papers (including grey papers) of Margit can be found on in this collection of the CREMA research institute

Sortition and random selection in management and governance

How to avoid leadership hubris

Why ranking does not work

Stop linking pay and performance

Communal and Community Enterprises

Women Shy Away From Competition – How To Overcome It (Crema Research)

What we can learn from monastic "enterprises"

Introducing Procedural Utility: Not Only What, But Also How Matters - Procedural utility is a potentially important source of human well-being. Matthias Benz, Bruno S. Frey, Alois Stutzer

The Other Neoliberalism: German ordoliberalism after the Euro crisis (LSE)

The German Business Ethics community has developed a fine-grained understanding of institutional ethics, which appears in all the discussions we had with German scholars. We recommend: Martino, M. G. (2020). Civil economy: An alternative to the social market economy? Analysis in the framework of individual versus institutional ethics. Journal of Business Ethics

Institutional democracy will strengthen our society, engaging citizenry and distributing power equitably - argues Mike O'Donnell

Here is a popular TED video about sortition and what it meant for democracy in Athens - short and insightful

Overview on the vast work of Stefano Zamagni.

Selected article on the civil economy: Bruni, Luigino, and Stephano Zamagni. "Civil economy. Efficiency, equity, public happiness." Society and Business Review (2008).

Selected article on the moral foundations of economics: Zamagni, S. (2021). The quest for an axiological reorientation of economic science. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 58, 391-401.

What is Teleopathy, and how does it affect corporations - example oil industry

Will Herberg is credited with coining the phrase "cut flower culture" to describe the spiritual rootlessness of modern European and American societies. The epithet is typically taken to imply that these societies cannot long survive without being regrafted onto their Judeo-Christian roots. (Wiki)

In the development of a moral self, individuals adopt standards of right and wrong that serve as guides and deterrents for conduct. However, in a pervasive moral paradox, people in all walks of life behave harmfully and still maintain a positive self-regard and live in peace with themselves. (See also "wilful blindness" by Margaret Heffernan)

Ted talk on "wilful blindness" by Margaret Heffernan

Basil of Caesarea, also called Saint Basil the Great, was a Byzantine bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). He was an influential theologian, who opposed the heresies of the early Christian church

"But it isn’t for the sake of clothing or food that riches are a matter of such concern to so many people; but, by a certain wily artifice of the devil, countless pretexts of expenditure are proposed to the rich, so that they strive for superfluous, useless things as though they were necessary, and so that nothing measures up to their conception of what they should spend..."

Antonio Genovesi was granted the Economics chair at the University of Naples in 1755, the first one of this kind in Italy

Capitalism needs to be embedded in moral norms and it needs to serve a larger social good. Opinion piece by David Brooks, on the "remoralization of markets"

Originally, "sustainability" meant making only such use of natural, renewable resources that people could continue to rely on their yields in the long term.[11][12] The concept of sustainability, or Nachhaltigkeit in German, can be traced back to Hans Carl von Carlowitz (1645–1714), and was applied to forestry. (Wikipedia)

Here is the original article: Jensen, M. C., & Meckling, W. H. (1976). Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure. Journal of financial economics, 3(4), 305-360.

This is a recent overview, historically situated: David Gindis, On the origins, meaning and influence of Jensen and Meckling’s definition of the firm, Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages 966–984.

This is the seminal critique which argues why the reductionist view is bad for practice: Ghoshal, S., & Moran, P. (1996). Bad for practice: A critique of the transaction cost theory. Academy of management Review, 21(1), 13-47.

Also Nobel prize winner Herbert Simon pushes back and argues why organizations should not be seen as a mere nexus of contracts and offers a different theory of the firm: Simon, H. A. (1991). Organizations and markets. Journal of economic perspectives, 5(2), 25-44.

The first time relational goods were conceptualized: Uhlaner, C. J. (1989). “Relational goods” and participation: Incorporating sociability into a theory of rational action. Public choice, 62(3), 253-285.

This is one of the first articles that introduce relational goods into economic theory: Bruni, L., & Stanca, L. (2008). Watching alone: Relational goods, television and happiness. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 65(3-4), 506-528.

Nobel-Prize Winner Akerlof with a critical view on economics: Akerlof, G. A. (2020). Sins of Omission and the Practice of Economics. Journal of Economic Literature, 58(2), 405-18.

Profile with further information on Alicia's activities

Publication list of Alicia with links to papers and books.

An interesting comparison offered by Alicia. Reference: Hennig, A. (2016). Three Different Approaches to Virtue in Business―Aristotle, Confucius, and Lao Zi. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 11(4), 556-586.

Here Alicia explains how daoism is to be interpreted for managementHennig, A. (2017). Daoism in management. Philosophy of Management, 16(2), 161-182.

In her dissertation Alicia shows how strongly worldviews influence our behavior. Reference: Hennig, A. (2017). An inquiry into responsible business in a neoliberal age.

Daoist values can be applied on the individual level for the purpose of self-realization, self-management, and good leadership practices but also on the corporate level, for a positive corporate culture and a productive organizational environment

Virtue ethics and an ethics of care: complementary or in conflict? Alan Thomas

What’s Aristotelian about neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethics? Sukaina Hirji

The authors argue that there is not enough political philosophy in business ethics and thus take up an important point of Solomon who argues "that business ethics has a micro level (dealing with individuals), a meso level (concerned with the corporation), and a
macro level (dealing with capitalism in general)." Fits to Alicia and to our quest.

Western leaders seeking the benefits of Taoism should first consider its assumptions and how these presuppositions impact ethical decision-making. In philosophical Taoism, principles revealed in creation, not laws or moral codes, guide ethical choices.

Victims of Circumstances? A Defense of Virtue Ethics in Business by Robert Solomon

Intrinsic motivation and how it is enabled explained on the basis of self-determination theory (a theory we are often drawing on in our interviews). Brick by Brick: The Origins, Development, and Future of Self-Determination Theory by Ryan/Deci

Eudaimonia as a way of living: Connecting Aristotle with self-determination theory Ryan/Martela

Integrating Philosophical and Psychological Accounts of Happiness and Well‑Being by Sabrina Intelisano, Julia Krasko, Maike Luhmann

Interesting perspective of "self" as a pattern of behaviours, rather than "an essence" to be found

Carol's website with pointers to many of her activities, publications and other resources

Carol's Institute for Regenerative Business Education

Many of Carol's articles about the Regenerative Economy

Carol Sanford on the Principles of the Regenerative Design Paradigm

Carol's explanations on the Regenerative Business Mindset

Using Regenerative Thinking to Achieve Operational Excellence with Carol Sanford

Living Systems View of Purpose: Getting Beyond Passionate Hubris: Carol Sanford at TEDxBGI

A paradigm shift, a concept identified by the American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn, is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. Even though Kuhn restricted the use of the term to the natural sciences, the concept of a paradigm shift has also been used in numerous non-scientific contexts to describe a profound change in a fundamental model or perception of events.

Seminal work of Kuhn on the development of science and paradigms

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is a book about the history of science by philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn. Kuhn challenged the then prevailing view of progress in science in which scientific progress was viewed as "development-by-accumulation" of accepted facts and theories. Kuhn argued for an episodic model in which periods of conceptual continuity where there is cumulative progress, which Kuhn referred to as periods of "normal science", were interrupted by periods of revolutionary science.

Hermeneutic phenomenology and phenomenology have become increasingly popular as research methodologies, yet confusion still exists about the unique aspects of these two methodologies.

A practical review of phenomenology in nursing research, focusing on Heidegger (interpretative) vs Husserl (descriptive)

Ecosophy or ecophilosophy (a portmanteau of ecological philosophy) is a philosophy of ecological harmony or equilibrium. The term was coined by the French post-structuralist philosopher and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari and the Norwegian father of deep ecology, Arne Næss.

Deep ecology, environmental philosophy and social movement based in the belief that humans must radically change their relationship to nature from one that values nature solely for its usefulness to human beings to one that recognizes that nature has an inherent value. Sometimes called an “ecosophy,” deep ecology offers a definition of the self that differs from traditional notions and is a social movement that sometimes has religious and mystical undertones.

Deep ecology appears to be some elaboration of the position that natural things other than humans have value in themselves, value sometimes perhaps exceeding that of or had by humans. But which elaboration is quite another matter.

Our environmental crisis is commonly explained as a product of a set of attitudes and beliefs about the world which have been developed by post-Cartesian technological society. Deep ecologists claim that the crisis can only be overcome by adopting an alternative non-technological paradigm, such as can be discovered in nonWestern cultures. In this paper I (a) express misgivings about the use of the expression 'paradigm' by deep ecologists, (b) question the claim that a science-based world-view inevitably fosters manipulative and exploitative attitudes to the natural world, (c) suggest that non-technological cultures do not necessarily provide exemplary and superior models for relating to the natural world, and (d) defend a scientific naturalism as a satisfying way of realising our unity with the natural world.

In the 1970s, deep ecologists developed a radical normative argument for ‘ecological consciousness’ to challenge environmental and human exploitation. Such consciousness would replace the Enlightenment dualist ‘illusion’ with a post-Enlightenment holism that ‘fully integrated’ humanity within the ecosphere. By the 2000s, deep ecology had fallen out of favour with many green scholars. And, in 2014, it was described as a ‘spent force’. By settling ontological questions in favour of holism and promoting moral voluntarism, deep ecology failed to address how actors with different interests might adopt green ideas. (“[O]ntological questions” involve determining “what you recognise as the factors you will

William Grey sets out to criticize deep ecology by first presenting his version of how deep ecology diagnoses the environmental illness of industrial society. The picture he presents is a caricature. Grey claims that deep ecologists find the roots of our environmental problems in a shallow technocratic philosophy which has its deeper taproot in the subsoil of Cartesianism and Christianity. Deep ecology is a philosophical activity, an inquiry, and also a social movement that aims to reopen the conversation with nature and between communities of beings that has been largely interrupted by certain developments in modern industrial society.

Deep ecology represents a strain of radical ecopolitical theory that has, over the past forty
years, engaged in various debates with other strains of radical ecopolitical thought. Though deep
ecology has attempted to defend itself against many critiques from this field, my analysis aims to
reassess deep ecology’s responses (or its silences) related to some of these charges. My goal is to
adequately respond to these critiques that have been made against deep ecology, particularly the
critiques that have arose from social ecology and from perspectives concerned with the Global
South. 

Excellent homepage with links to all his publications.

Society for Business Ethics

European Business Ethics Network 

Sison, A. J. G., & Fontrodona, J. (2012). The common good of the firm in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition. Business ethics quarterly, 22(2), 211-246.

Sison, A. J. G., & Ferrero, I. (2015). How different is neo‐A ristotelian virtue from positive organizational virtuousness?. Business Ethics: A European Review, 24, S78-S98.

Sison, A. J. G., Ferrero, I., & Guitián, G. (2019). Characterizing virtues in finance. Journal of Business Ethics, 155(4), 995-1007.

Fontrodona, J., & Sison, A. J. G. (2006). The nature of the firm, agency theory and shareholder theory: A critique from philosophical anthropology. Journal of business ethics, 66(1), 33-42.

Beadle, R., & Moore, G. (2006). MacIntyre on virtue and organization. Organization Studies, 27(3), 323-340.

Ferrero, I., & Sison, A. J. G. (2014). A quantitative analysis of authors, schools and themes in virtue ethics articles in business ethics and management journals (1980–2011). Business Ethics: A European Review, 23(4), 375-400.

Measuring systems of virtues development In book: Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management

Excellent homepage where you find all his articles and books.

Frey, B. S., & Stutzer, A. (2002). What can economists learn from happiness research?. Journal of Economic literature, 40(2), 402-435.

On the importance of a public choice view of political economy

Rost, K., Inauen, E., Osterloh, M., & Frey, B. S. (2010). The corporate governance of Benedictine abbeys: What can stock corporations learn from monasteries?. Journal of Management History

External interventions have a significant and systematic effect on preferences: Under specific conditions they crowd an individual's intrinsic motivation in or out.

When discussing constitutional design, economists concentrate on the propensity of individuals to free ride. Preventing opportunistic behaviour by knaves has costs by crowding out civic virtue.

Eichenberger, R., & Frey, B. S. (2002). Democratic governance for a globalized world. Kyklos, 55(2), 265-287.

Yes, Managers Should Be Paid Like Bureaucrats

States are ill equipped to meet the challenges of a globalized world. The concept of citizenship with its rights and obligations, including the allegiance owed, is too narrowly defined to exist only between individuals and a state. 

Are political economists selfish and indoctrinated? Evidence from a natural experiment

Publishing as Prostitution? – Choosing Between One's Own Ideas and Academic Success

Eine andere Akademie. How University could be reinvented.

The impossibility theorem of Kenneth Arrow

Amartya Sen's review of Ken Arrow's famous Theorem of General Possibility

Ladner, A. (2011). Switzerland: Subsidiarity, power‐sharing, and direct democracy. In The Oxford handbook of local and regional democracy in Europe.

The political business cycle theory as discussed by: Drazen, A. (2000). The political business cycle after 25 years. NBER macroeconomics annual, 15, 75-117.

Find Blaines' complete publication list on google scholar.

Blaine's website with links to his publications. "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." -Samuel Butler

The Moral Science Network as discussed with Blaine Fowers.

The Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues is a pioneering interdisciplinary research centre focussing on character, virtues and values in the interest of human flourishing (University of Birmingham)

Fowers, B. J., Carroll, J. S., Leonhardt, N. D., & Cokelet, B. (2021). The emerging science of virtue. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(1), 118-147

Kristjánsson, K., Fowers, B., Darnell, C., & Pollard, D. (2021). Phronesis (practical wisdom) as a type of contextual integrative thinking. Review of General Psychology, 25(3), 239-257

An exploratory study of friendship characteristics and their relations with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being

Fowers, B. J. (2008). From continence to virtue: Recovering goodness, character unity, and character types for positive psychology. Theory & Psychology, 18(5), 629-653.

A Psychology of Wisdom: History and Recent Developments

Fowers, B. J. (2016). Aristotle on eudaimonia: On the virtue of returning to the source. In Handbook of eudaimonic well-being (pp. 67-83). Springer, Cham.

Many of the shortcomings of `positive psychology' seem to stem from its unreflectively perpetuating key assumptions of the very mainstream social science it censures for being too `negative.' Philosophical hermeneutics and related social theory perspectives allow us to identify and critically examine such assumptions, including a one-sided individualism and narrow instrumentalism. Frank C. Richardson, Charles B. Guignon

Which Game Are You Playing? Is your corporate culture geared for social business? One of the most important, and most often overlooked, aspects of social business is organizational culture. For organizations with the right type of culture, social business represents the opportunity to unlock new collaborative potential and fundamentally transform the organization. Gerald C. Kane

In biology, altricial species are those in which the young are underdeveloped at the time of birth, but with the aid of their parents mature after birth.

Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans. The most important tenet is that young children need to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for normal social and emotional development. The theory was formulated by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby.

Aristotle's Painful Path to Virtue - Aristotle's oft-repeated prescription for becoming virtuous is, "We become just by performing just acts, and temperate by performing temperate acts". Now virtuous action is different in different situations, so habitually acting virtuously does not mean repeatedly doing the same thing, but rather it means repeatedly doing the right thing. April 2002, Journal of the History of Philosophy 40(2):141-162 DOI: 10.1353/hph.2002.0026 Howard Curzer

Introduction to the special issue of Journal of Moral Education: Research in morality as an integrated, interdisciplinary domain of inquiry

Prilleltensky, I. (2020). Mattering at the intersection of psychology, philosophy, and politics. American Journal of Community Psychology, 65(1-2), 16-34..

Parker, I. (2007). Critical psychology: What it is and what it is not. Social and personality psychology compass, 1(1), 1-15.

Talbot Brewer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. He specializes in ethics and political philosophy, with particular attention to moral psychology and Aristotelian ethics.

Dr. Isaac Prilleltensky  is the inaugural Erwin and Barbara Mautner Chair in Community Well-Being at the University of Miami. He has published twelve books and over 140 articles and chapters

William James, philosopher and psychologist, was instrumental in establishing Harvard's psychology department, which at its inception was tied to the department of philosophy. James himself remained unconvinced that psychology was in fact a distinct discipline (Harvard)

Personal website of Hari Tsoukas with events, information and links to books and publications.

Google Scholar publications for Haridimos Tsoukas - University of Cyprus & University of Warwick

European Group for Organizational Studies

13th International Process Symposium Organizing on the Precipice: Process Studies in Extreme Contexts 20-23 June 2022, Rhodes

Sensemaking reconsidered: Towards a broader understanding through phenomenology

Weick, K. E. (1979). The Social Psychology of Organizing (2nd ed.). Reading, MA: Addison-
Wesley. 

Strategy and virtue: Developing strategy-as-practice through virtue ethics - Strategy-as-practice research has usefully built on earlier strategy process research by taking into account the social embeddedness of strategy making. While such an approach has generated valuable insights, it has curiously left unexplored the moral dimension of practice. Tsoukas, H. (2018). Strategy and virtue: Developing strategy-as-practice through virtue ethics. Strategic Organization, 16(3), 323-351.

Institutions-the structures, practices, and meanings that define what people and organizations think, do, and aspire to-are created through process. They are'work in progress' that involves continual efforts to maintain, modify, or disturb them. Institutional logics are also in motion, holding varying degrees of dominance that change over time.

When it comes to the field of organization and management theory, a philosophical perspective enables us to conduct organizational research imbued with the attitude of'wonder'; it helps researchers question dominant images of thought underlying mainstream thinking, and provides fresh distinctions that enable the development of new theory.

The gap between theory and practice has been a persistent concern in the applied social sciences. In organization and management science, in particular, there has been an increasing dissatisfaction with management theories' capacity to be relevant to management practice  Sandberg, J., & Tsoukas, H. (2011). Grasping the logic of practice: Theorizing through practical rationality. Academy of management review, 36(2), 338-360.

In Search of Phronesis: Leadership and the Art of Judgment - We explore the process through which people in organizations, especially those in leadership positions, in circumstances marked by ambiguity, surprise, and conflicting values, come to, or arrive at, judgment.

What is reflection‐in‐action? A phenomenological account - Building on the work of Donald Schön and phenomenological treatments of practice, we propose a phenomenological theory of reflection‐in‐action that develops this concept further, thereby transcending a number of limitations we find in his theorizing.

Reforming the state: Understanding the vicious circles of reform - The recent financial crisis in Europe, made manifest formidable needs for massive state reform. The challenge, from a process view, is that previous reform attempts have often failed, with each new failure leading to less readiness for future reform. 

Interesting summary of Wittgenstein's contribution to philosophy - Meaning is use: Wittgenstein on the limits of language

The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition is a model of how learners acquire skills through formal instruction and practicing, used in the fields of education and operations research. Brothers Stuart and Hubert Dreyfus proposed the model in 1980

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, with a Ph.D. in political science, whose work also influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and he is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing"

The Helikopter-Streichquartett is one of Karlheinz Stockhausen's best-known pieces, and one of the most complex to perform. It involves a string quartet, four helicopters with pilots, as well as audio and video equipment and technicians. It was first performed and recorded in 1995.

You can find most publications of Paul Adler here at University of Southern California Marshall School of Business Department of Management and Organization

Further details on Google Scholar

Odyssey of a Socialist in the Business School World - remarks at the 2020 Academy of Management on receiving the Organization and Management Theory Division's Distinguished Scholar award https://doi.org/10.1177/10564926211056525

Democratic socialism is defined as having a socialist economy in which the means of production are socially and collectively owned or controlled,[2] alongside a liberal democratic political system of government.

Bureaucracy for the 21st Century: Clarifying and Expanding Our View of Bureaucratic Organization. Reviewing organizational research on bureaucracy, we find three main perspectives: bureaucracy as an organizing principle, as a paradigmatic form of organization, and as one type of structure among others. We argue that these three perspectives should be expanded to overcome the de-contextualized, reified, and narrow ways bureaucracy is often viewed.

Adler, P. S., Borys, B. (1996). Two Types of Bureaucracy: Enabling and Coercive. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(1), 61-89.

Bodrozic, Z., and P.S. Adler (2017) The Evolution of Management Models: A Neo-Schumpeterian Theory. Administrative Science Quarterly, 63, 1: 85-129

Collaboration as an organization design for shared purpose - “Shared purpose,” understood as a widely shared commitment to the organization’s fundamental raison d’être, can be a powerful driver of organizational performance by providing both motivation and direction for members’ joint problem-solving efforts.

Adler, P. S., Kwon, S., Heckscher, C. (2008). Professional work: The emergence of collaborative community. Organization Science, 19(2), 359-376.

"Instrumental" and "value rationality" are terms scholars use to identify two ways humans reason when coordinating group behaviour to maintain social life. Instrumental rationality recognizes means that "work" efficiently to achieve ends. Value rationality recognizes ends that are "right," legitimate in themselves.

Adler, P. S. (2007). The Future of Critical Management Studies: A Paleo-Marxist Critique of Labour Process Theory. Organization Studies, 28(9), 1313-1345.

Adler, P. S., Kwon, S. (2002). Social capital: Prospects for a new concept. Academy of Management Review, 27(1), 17-40.

Adler, P. S. (2001). Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism. Organization Science, (March-April), 214-234.

Adler, P. S., Borys, B. (1993). Materialism and Idealism in Organizational Theory. Organization Studies, 14(5), 657-679.

The long-running debate between the ‘rational design’ and ‘emergent process’ schools of strategy formation has involved caricatures of firms' strategic planning processes, but little empirical evidence of whether and how companies plan. Despite the presumption that environmental turbulence renders conventional strategic planning all but impossible, the evidence from the corporate sector suggests that reports of the demise of strategic planning are greatly exaggerated. - Robert Grant

In Freedom’s Right, Axel Honneth offers a nuanced and historically rich discussion of the moral possibilities and limits of market society. Building on Hegel, Polanyi, and Durkheim, Honneth argues that market society is not inherently morally objectionable if economic markets are “embedded” in a system of other social institutions that rein in the market’s pathologies and excesses.

Varieties of Capitalism and institutional comparative advantage: A test and reinterpretation. How do national-level institutions relate to national comparative advantages? We seek to shed light on this question by exploring two different sets of hypotheses based on the Varieties of Capitalism and other branches of comparative capitalisms literature. Michael A. Witt and Gregory Jackson

Olin explores a broad framework for thinking sociologically about emancipatory alternatives to dominant institutions
and social structures in the service to enable flourishing. Wright, E. O. (2013). Transforming capitalism through real utopias. Irish Journal of Sociology, 21(2), 6-40.

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (BBC)

Website and Ted Talk of Erica Chenoweth who found this 3.5% rule when studying nonviolent civil resistance

A brilliant starting point for resources, links, events and many of Bill's publication in full pdf version

A large collection of articles on Google Scholar

Torbert, W. R., & Rooke, D. (2005). Seven transformations of leadership. Harvard Business Review, 83(4), 66-76.

Chandler, D., & Torbert, B. (2003). Transforming inquiry and action: Interweaving 27 flavors of action research. Action research, 1(2), 133-152.

Palus, C.J., McGuire, J.B., Stawiski, S. and Torbert, W.R. (2020), "The Art and Science of Vertical Development", Reams, J. (Ed.) Maturing Leadership: How Adult Development Impacts Leadership, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, pp. 59-81. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-401-020201005

Developmental action inquiry: A distinct integral theory that actually integrates developmental theory, practice, and research. In this chapter, we offer an introduction to our work over the past 40 years of developing the distinctive integral theory, practice, and types of research known as Developmental Action Inquiry (DAI), including the most recent empirical and clinical findings using the Leadership Development Profile (LDP, Harthill).

Transforming Social Science: Integrating Quantitative, Qualitative, and Action Research - During the twentieth century, the social sciences have been riven by paradigm controversies—so much so that physical and natural scientists often view this apparent disarray as prima facie evidence that social studies do not deserve the name science.

Pre-bureaucratic and post-bureaucratic stages of organization development - A nine-stage theory of organizational development, analogous to Erikson's (1959) theory of individual development, is introduced in order to provide a new perspective on the problems of creating new organizations, changing bureaucratic organizations, and envisioning qualitatively different kinds of organizing. Illustrations of the stages derive mainly from alternative educational settings.  

The False Duality of Work and Leisure -Work and leisure are commonly viewed as dichotomous and antithetical. The authors argue that this conceptual duality is unreflective, confounding the meaning of each term. They suggest that work and leisure are complements that in their highest states share core elements and are best understood in dynamic relation to each other.

George Ivanovich Gurdjieff (1866-1877) was a Russian philosopher, mystic, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent. Gurdjieff taught that most humans do not possess a unified consciousness and thus live their lives in a state of hypnotic "waking sleep", but that it is possible to awaken to a higher state of consciousness and achieve full human potential.

The music of Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff - Thomas De Hartmann. Pianists Michele Fedrigotti, Danilo Lorenzini, Michèle Thomasson. The pieces were recorded during the concert on January 29, 2001 at the Teatro della Cometa in Rome.

Many resources. links and the "Edgy Ideas" podcast are available on Simon's ANC website 

A number of Simon's publications available on Google Scholar

The Eco-Leadership Institute is a think-tank, a developmental hub, and a change agent.

Four discourses is a concept developed by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. He argued that there were four fundamental types of discourse. He defined four discourses, which he called Master, University, Hysteric and Analyst, and suggested that these relate dynamically to one another.

Object relations theory in psychoanalytic psychology is the process of developing a psyche in relation to others in the childhood environment. It designates theories or aspects of theories that are concerned with the exploration of relationships between real and external people as well as internal images and the relations found in them. It maintains that the infant's relationship with the mother primarily determines the formation of its personality in adult life.

The object relations theory of Melanie Klein pivoted around the importance of love and hate, concern for and destruction of others, from infancy onwards. Klein stressed the importance of inborn aggression as a reflection of the death drive and talked about the battle of love and hatred throughout the life span.

We talked quite a lot about the decision-making of Quakers. Find a paper on Quaker Decision Making which explains and reflects the process.

And wonderful book by Jane Bennett on "The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics".

The topic has been rediscovered in the organizational literature: Pessi, A. B., Seppänen, A. M., Spännäri, J., Grönlund, H., Martela, F., & Paakkanen, M. (2021). In search of copassion: Creating a novel concept to promote re-enchantment at work. BRQ Business Research Quarterly, 23409444211058179

In social science, disenchantment (German: Entzauberung) is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society. The term was borrowed from Friedrich Schiller by Max Weber to describe the character of a modernized, bureaucratic, secularized Western society.

Michael Puett on decsion-making and whether we should be searching for our "essence" to shape our careers (youtube)

Prof. Dr. André Habisch Professur für Christliche Sozialethik

Bachmann, C., Habisch, A., & Dierksmeier, C. (2018). Practical wisdom: Management’s no longer forgotten virtue. Journal of Business Ethics, 153(1), 147-165.

El Garah, W., Beekun, R. I., Habisch, A., Lenssen, G., & Adaui, C. L. (2012). Practical wisdom for management from the Islamic tradition. Journal of Management Development.

Franco, G., & Habisch, A. (2018). Wilhelm Röpke and the Role of “Moral Capital” for the Social Market Economy. Journal for Markets and Ethics. 133-144.

Léon Harmel, né le 17 février 1829, à La Neuville-lès-Wasigny, dans les Ardennes, et mort le 25 novembre 1915, à Nice, était un industriel français. Camérier secret du pape Léon XIII, il expérimenta la doctrine sociale de l'Église, engagée par ce dernier, dans sa filature du Val-des-Bois sur la commune de Warmeriville, dans le département français de la Marne, à la limite entre ce département de la Marne et celui des Ardennes.

As Minister of Labour, Brauns advanced laws and decrees on works councils, workers' participation in management, collective bargaining agreements, labour arbitration, labour law and employment exchanges. He also supported rules on policies such as social security entitlements or handouts for the war-wounded. Brauns was a major influence on social policy in Weimar Germany.

Habisch, A. (2017). Practical Wisdom for Social Innovation. How Christian Entrepreneurs Triggered the Emergence of the Catholic Social Tradition in Europe. In On the Economic Significance of the Catholic Social Doctrine (pp. 167-190). Springer, Cham.

Birth of the German Ordoliberalism.

This chapter considers the development of German and European competition law, particularly Ordoliberalism and the Freiburg school of economic thought. It discusses the accounts of Franz Bohm, Walter Eucken, Hans Grossman-Doerty, and other ordoliberals.

Exiles and Half-exiles: Wilhelm Röpke, Alexander Rüstow and Walter Eucken.

Die Sozialen Marktwirtschaft hat das deutsche Wirtschaftswunder hervorgebracht. Aber wie ist sie eigentlich entstanden? Wir zeichnen hier die Geschichte der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft von ihren Urahnen wie Aristoteles über Max Weber, Walter Eucken und Ludwig Erhard nach. Denn: Nur wer die Vergangenheit kennt, kann die Gegenwart verstehen - und so die Zukunft gestalten.

The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) was to become a new Pentecost of the Catholic Church. The event also really shed new light on the contribution and role of women: At the invitation of Saint Pope Paul VI, 23 women took part in the Council as auditors.

In this article, the authors argue that misbehaviors of organizations (the ‘barrels’) and their members (the ‘apples’) cannot be addressed properly without a clear understanding of their broader context (the ‘larder’).

Further information and links in Emanuele's profile page on Linkedin

The Human Organization Explained and further resources about organisational change

One of the most forward-thinking organisational design and transformation consultancies in Europe - with many free resources

The Platform Design Toolkit – Platform Opportunity Exploration Guide. The Platform Opportunity Exploration Guide and the related canvases provide a structured approach to scanning an ecosystem and assessing the platform opportunity in there.

Through their unique ability to empower multiple streams of value creation among million of actors, platform organizations such as Amazon, Airbnb, Haier are quickly emerging as leaders of the business world. Boundaryless will share early insights from mixing their market-based design with sociocracy as an attempt to foster unprecedented levels of entrepreneurship, motivation, inclusiveness and power distribution.

Collapsing Empires and Rainforests at Teal Around The World 2021. An overview of Haier's Rendanheyi model and how to leverage it to design adaptive, ecosystemic organizations able to fully unlock human potential and unprecedented market value in the era of platforms and IoT

Emanuele Quintarelli has years of experience on how to introduce enterprise social tools into large organisations. At Social Now 2016 Emanuele shared a few steps to help organisations become more productive and more human.

The shifting role of “strategy” in a world in deep and continuous evolution - Martin Reeves on dynamic strategies. "We need to think about vitality, which is not performance, it’s the potential for future performance. Key about dynamic strategy is essentially, either real world needs driven adaptation, or ideas driven, imagination driven, creative strategy..."

Whether it’s from external events such as Covid-19 or a market crash, Rita Gunther McGrath points out that inflection points are inevitable for any organization. The key is to not remain complacent, but to keep moving, innovate and learn what the new strategy playbook looks like in a non-linear world. She also suggests that we may have been “sleepwalking” our way into complexity and that we’re now starting to see the consequences.

Ted Rau's website full of resources about sociocracy

James Priest's website on sociocracy S3 with many resources and design patterns

Frederic Laloux's website with many practical tips, links, information and over 200 hours of videos