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Turnaround challenge : business and the city of the future /
Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [England] :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and Glossary; List of Figures; List of Boxes; 1. Introduction; 2. Turnaround Challenge: Escaping the Petropolis; The Rhetoric of Extinction; A View from a Bridge: Does the Rhetoric have a Rationale?; Under the Bonnet of Capitalism: the Model T Ford; And after Ford ... is there a Next Great Surge?; Anatomizing the Crisis; Transformational Crises; The Crisis of Governance; Can we still Afford a Ford?; 3. Megatrends: Mapping Business's Key Challenges; Wicked Problems . . .; ... and Their Illogical Solutions; Climate Change.
- Climate Change: the Background for BusinessThe Challenge of Aviation; Demographic Change; The Economic Crisis and Geo-Political Shift; Governance Crisis; The Privatization of Regulation; The Governance Gap; 4. Ways Out? The Oracles; Mass Production and the Technological Cycle; Exit from Petropolis; Market Moderation, Market Solutions, or Market Exit?; The Oracles; Market Solutions; Evaluating the Oracles; Reviewing the Oracles; 5. The Dynamics of Transition: Techno-economic Paradigms; Waiting for the Wave to Break; Reclaiming the ICT Revolution; Internal and External Congruence.
- The Evolving Norms of BusinessIncongruence and its Impacts on Transition; How Congruence Happens: the Schumpeterian Approach; Installation Period; Turning Point; Deployment Period; The Uses of Techno-economic Paradigms: Mapping an Economy on the S Curve; The Strange Life of the ICT Era; From Producers to Consumers; Plausible Options; 6. Cyburbia; Songdo: 'Everything one could possibly want'; The Benefits of Cyburbia; Questioning Cyburbia: How Smart is Smart?; 7. The Return of the Optimist; Beyond Petropolis and Cyburbia; Techno-Optimism Revisited.
- Colliding Mega-trends: Rising Chinese Labour Costs ... and Decreasing Costs of Local Manufacturing; Structural or Surface Change; Drogba and D. Light; Lessons for Business: Innovation Aligned with the Market; Innovators and Incumbents; Scanning for the Disruptors; Business Implications: Resolving the Crises of the Quadrilemma; 8. The City of the Future: A Place for People; From Smart Cities to Smart Citizens; The Great Texas Blackout; Co-designing the New Energy Economy; Accelerating Transition; From Laboratory to City; From Consumer to Producer; Challenge 1: The Car-shaped City.
- Challenge 2: Political Engagement and Results from GovernmentChallenge 3: Good Jobs; 9. Transition: The Turnaround; Innovation and the Entrepreneurial State; Three Cities of the Future; Synergy and the Role of the Entrepreneurial State; Moving to Producer Capitalism; Reasons for Optimism; Annex: The Grassroots FabLab Instructable; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.