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Deeply Responsible Business
Corporate social responsibility has entered the mainstream, but what does it take to run a successful purpose-driven business? A Harvard Business School professor examines leaders who put values alongside profits to showcase the challenges and upside of deeply responsible business. For decades, CEOs have been told that their only responsibility is to the bottom line. But consensus is that companies—and their leaders—must engage with their social and environmental contexts. The man behind one of Harvard Business School's most popular courses, Geoffrey Jones distinguishes deep responsibility, which can deliver radical social and ecological responses, from corporate social responsibility, w...
The demolition
The world is facing a crisis of unimagined proportions. Climate collapse and Corona are presenting us with challenges that could not even have been imagined just a few years ago. Terms like "debt brake" or "black zero" seem out of time. While the world is hunting for a vaccine, long suppressed grievances suddenly become visible. We are accustomed to a world of waste and prosperity and hardly notice that in Germany eight percent of farms manage more than half of all agricultural land and thus also collect the lion's share of EU subsidies. Unequal distribution of wealth and the devaluation of savings play into the hands of the political elites and produce ever greater dependencies.
Ours to Hack and to Own
Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive. Here, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process. The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance. The on-demand economy is reversing the rights and protections workers fought for centuries to win. Ordinary Internet users, meanwhile, retain little control over their personal data. W...
Own This!
What if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages? Platform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their own platform—an internet where platforms such as Twitch, Twitter, and Roblox were owned by their streamers, users, and creators. What if small fishing communities in Mexico or farmers in Kerala had the power to determine what data they collected about their work and how they utilized that data? Platform cooperatives are not a figment of the utopian imagination, but rather a reality that is transforming industries today. Collectives that leverage technology offer an urgent and practical solution to shift how businesses are owned and controlled, allowing workers to make decisions together. In this book, researcher and activist Trebor Scholz explores how these new forms of business, powered by peer principles, are paving the way for a more equitable economy that benefits everyone. Own This! sets out a program that could change the ways we live, work, and organize.
Sozialrevolution!
Die digitale Revolution erfordert eine Sozialrevolution Dreizehn renommierte Vordenker analysieren die heutige Arbeitswelt und zeigen Wege zu einem neuen Sozialsystem. Die Ideen reichen vom bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen über neue Steuermodelle bis zu Peer-to-Peer-Versicherungen. Autoren sind die Politiker Robert B. Reich und Yanis Varoufakis, die Ökonomen Erik Brynjolfsson und Michael D. Tanner, der Gewerkschafter Andrew L. Stern, die Lobbyistin Natalie Foster, der Unternehmer Georg Hasler, der Investor Albert Wenger, der Soziologe Dirk Helbing, der Neurobiologe Gerald Hüther, der Philosoph Philip Kovce sowie die Gründer Börries Hornemann und Armin Steuernagel. "Dieses provozierende Bu...
Economic Ideas You Should Forget
Reporting on cutting-edge advances in economics, this book presents a selection of commentaries that reveal the weaknesses of several core economics concepts. Economics is a vigorous and progressive science, which does not lose its force when particular parts of its theory are empirically invalidated; instead, they contribute to the accumulation of knowledge. By discussing problematic theoretical assumptions and drawing on the latest empirical research, the authors question specific hypotheses and reject major economic ideas from the “Coase Theorem” to “Say’s Law” and “Bayesianism.” Many of these ideas remain prominent among politicians, economists and the general public. Yet, in the light of the financial crisis, they have lost both their relevance and supporting empirical evidence. This fascinating and thought-provoking collection of 71 short essays written by respected economists and social scientists from all over the world will appeal to anyone interested in scientific progress and the further development of economics.
Toekomstbedrijven
Toekomstbedrijven neemt je mee in de absurditeit van het aandeelhoudersmodel en plofbedrijven, én presenteert de helden van de toekomst: stewards. Een idealistische startup die voor de hoofdprijs verkocht wordt, maar zijn missie totaal uit het oog verliest. Een bevlogen ceo die wil verduurzamen, maar wordt afgestraft door beleggers. Langetermijndenken lijkt in het bedrijfsleven ver te zoeken, met grote gevolgen voor volgende generaties. Dit roept de vraag op: wie staat er in een bedrijf eigenlijk aan het roer? Bij de meeste bedrijven liggen zowel eigendom als zeggenschap bij aandeelhouders, waardoor snelle winstmaximalisatie vaak de prioriteit heeft. Bij steward-owned bedrijven staan niet aandeelhouders, maar stewards aan het roer. Stewards zijn zorgdragers: ze zorgen ervoor dat het bedrijf op de lange termijn beter presteert én zijn missie kan waarmaken. En dat werkt: succesvolle bedrijven als Rolex, Carlsberg, tbi en Bosch zijn in handen van stewards. Toekomstbedrijven neemt je mee in de absurditeit van het aandeelhoudersmodel en plofbedrijven, én presenteert de helden van de toekomst: stewards.
Everything for Everyone
The origins of the next radical economy is rooted in a tradition that has empowered people for centuries and is now making a comeback. A new feudalism is on the rise. While monopolistic corporations feed their spoils to the rich, more and more of us are expected to live gig to gig. But, as Nathan Schneider shows, an alternative to the robber-baron economy is hiding in plain sight; we just need to know where to look. Cooperatives are jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic, social, and cultural interests of their members. They often emerge during moments of crisis not unlike our own, putting people in charge of the workplaces, credit unions, grocery stores, healthcare, and utilities they depend on. Everything for Everyone chronicles this revolution -- from taxi cooperatives keeping Uber at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin, to the rural electric co-op members who are propelling an aging system into the future. As these pioneers show, co-ops are helping us rediscover our capacity for creative, powerful, and fair democracy.
Data Integration in the Life Sciences
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2018, held in Hannover, Germany, in November 2018. The 5 full, 8 short, 3 poster and 4 demo papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: big biomedical data integration and management; data exploration in the life sciences; biomedical data analytics; and big biomedical applications.
