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List of contents
SECTION 1. APPLIED PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER 1. SCIENCE AND THEORY PRECEDE PRACTICE : A Scientific Framework for the Applied Philosophy Approach in Management and Leadership
CHAPTER 2. DELPHIC MAXIMS' ONTOLOGY-BASED TAXONOMIES FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY: An Interpretation of the Ancient Hellenic Philosophy in Business and Governance Management.
CHAPTER 3. VISUALIZATION OF THE WISDOM CUBE: Wisdom Space for Management and Leadership
CHAPTER 4. THE COMPANY DEMOCRACY CULTURE: Understanding Culture and Dynamics
CHAPTER 5. DIMENSIONS IN COMPANY PERFORMANCE: The Power of Co-Evolution
CHAPTER 6. MANAGING AND LEADING DEMOCRATICALLY: Achieving Democratic Balance
SECTION 2. HUMAN FOCUS IN LIVING SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 7. THE HOLISTIC CONCEPT OF MAN IN THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT: The Concepts We Live By
CHAPTER 8. THE CIRCLES OF MIND METAPHOR: Actors on the Stage of Consciousness
CHAPTER 9. HARNESSING MODERN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: Applying Knowledge Frameworks
CHAPTER 10. THE CROSS-SCIENTIFIC APPROACH FOR HUMAN-COMPATIBLE SYSTEMS: Acting with Modern Decision Tools
CHAPTER 11. AGILITY APPLICATION, ONTOLOGY, AND CONCEPTS IN A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY CONTEXT: Agility Boosts Collective Wisdom
SECTION 3. THE COMPANY DEMOCRACY MODEL.
CHAPTER 12. THE COMPANY DEMOCRACY MODEL FOR ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES. The Innovative Company Democracy Model.
CHAPTER 13. THE LEVELS OF THE COMPANY DEMOCRACY MODEL: A Spiral Co-Evolution.
CHAPTER 14. HUMAN PERCEPTION, INTERPRETATION, UNDERSTANDING AND COMMUNICATION OF COMPANY DEMOCRACY: Building Co-opetitive Ecosystems
CHAPTER 15. THE COMPANY DEMOCRACY MODEL FOR HUMAN INTELLECTUAL CAPITALISM AND SHARED VALUE CREATION: Towards Added Value and Circular Economies
CHAPTER 16. MATURITY SPACES FOR COMPANY DEMOCRACY: The Seven Clouds of Glory
CHAPTER 17. THE DYNAMICS OF COMPANY DEMOCRACY CULTURE: Enlightening the Black Hole in Knowledge Management
CHAPTER 18. APPLYING THE COMPANY DEMOCRACY MODEL. From Theory to Practice
CHAPTER 19. REPETITION IS THE MOTHER OF STUDYING, LEARNING, AND INTERNALIZATION. Concluding Remarks with the Company Democracy Model and Applied Philosophy for Management and Leadership
About the author
Dr. Evangelos Markopoulos was born in Kalamata Greece in 1967. He is an expert, entrepreneur, and scholar on Process and Project Management, Enterprise Engineering, Knowledge Management, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He holds a BA in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, from the City University of New York, an MSc on Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from New York University, and a Ph.D. on ICT Project and Investments Management from University of Piraeus (Greece). He has worked as a computer scientist in the USA at ΙΒΜ, Siemens, and Bell Laboratories of AT&T. As an academic, he worked in universities such as the University College London (UCL), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS). City University New York, (CUNY), University of Essex, Royal Holloway University of London, Hult International Business School and has over 120 articles and publications in international journals and conferences. He won the 2018 and 2020 (shared) HULT Prize Global Social Innovation competition at the UN with his UCL and QMUL students respectively and he is part of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI-U) for sustainable and social innovation.
Dr. Hannu Vanharanta was born in 1949 in Pori, Finland. He matriculated in 1967 and took his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. He began his professional career as a Technical Assistant at the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry. He entered then the engineering industry and gained valuable practical experience in many fields of industrial management. In 1995 he got his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Management at Åbo Akademi and started his academic career. He has had full professorships at the University of Joensuu, Lappeenranta University of Technology and Tampere University of Technology, Finland, and has now after retirement been visiting professor at Vaasa University and Poznan University of Technology. He has over 300 articles and publications in international journals and conferences.
Summary
Company democracy is often misunderstood in the business context as democracy is normally related to politics. In this book, the authors present a different dimension in which they focus first on employees and their work context and then give them new possibilities to understand democracy from the company floor level.
