Beyond the Bottom Line: Socially Innovative Business Owners

by Jack Quarter

Book Overview

Quarter examines business owners who use their firms as laboratories for social innovation. After providing an introduction to this phenomenon in an historical perspective and discussing the 19th-century British industrialist Robert Owen, he provides ll case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries-the UK, US, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and New Zealand.

The case studies fall into two broad groups. The first involves business...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567204147
• ISBN13: 9781567204148
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"