Capital, systems, and objects : the foundation and future of organizations / Richard Thomas Watson.
Watson, Richard Thomas, author.
2021
HB501
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Title Capital, systems, and objects : the foundation and future of organizations / Richard Thomas Watson.
Author Watson, Richard Thomas, author.
ISBN 981159418X (electronic book)
9789811594182 (electronic bk.)
9811594171
9789811594175
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9418-2
Published Singapore : Springer, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-15-9418-2 doi
Call Number HB501
Dewey Decimal Classification 332/.0415
Summary This book provides a set of integrated frameworks--capital, systems, and objects--that transcend managerial or technology hype by focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational success. Many organizations are currently addressing two important transformational issues: ecological sustainability and digitization. Sustainability is a goal, an end, and digitization is a process, a means to achieve a goal. This book introduces a flexible model that can be applied to current and future organizational challenges, including sustainability and digitization, because the fundamentals are constant. This book is designed to serve two purposes for the readers: first, to present three conceptual foundations for designing and operating organizations (capital, systems, and objects in section 1); and second, to provide a reference source for implementing these ideas in an organization (sections 2 and 3). The first section of the book, chapters 1 through 7, sets forth the conceptual foundations. The chapters mix concepts and practical examples to give a new way of thinking about the setting in which one may work many days each year. The second section provides details and associated examples of every one of the thirty-six forms of capital conversion. It also illustrates how the five foundational systems support capital conversion in a variety of ways. Finally, the third section is about measuring capital and systems. The book will resonate with practitioners and students of strategy, leadership, and organizational design. It is critical reading for leaders, industry experts, and general readers who want to understand how over thousands of years the capital creation system has developed todays world and will fashion its future.
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Chapter 1: A Capital Idea
Chapter 2: The Organization as a Capital Creation System
Chapter 3: The Growth of the Capital Creation System
Chapter 4: Systems for Creating Capital
Chapter 5: Energy for Capital Creation
Chapter 6: Objects
Chapter 7: The Future
Section 2: Capital Creation Mechanisms
Chapter 8: Economic Capital
Chapter 9: Human Capital
Chapter 10: Organizational Capital
Chapter 11: Natural Capital
Chapter 12: Social Capital
Chapter 13: Symbolic Capital
Section 3: Capital and Systems Measurement
Chapter 14: The Measurement of Capital
Chapter 15: The Measurement of Systems.

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