Facilitating the socio-economic approach to management : results of the first SEAM conference in North America

This book is the 20th volume in the Research in Management Consulting series and the sixth major collaboration with Henri Savall, Véronique Zardet, and their team of intervenerresearchers from the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR) in LyonÉcully, France. In 2013, for the...

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Other Authors Savall, Henri (Editor), Conbere, John (Editor), Heorhiadi, Alla (Editor), Cristallini, Vincent (Editor), Buono, Anthony F. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014.
SeriesResearch in management consulting.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806612758
DOI10.1108/978-1-62396-669-0
Physical Description1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Anthony F. Buono
  • Introduction / Henri Savall and Michel Peron
  • The socio-economic approach to management
  • The history of seam / Marc Bonnet and Henri Savall
  • The taylorism-fayolism-weberism virus / Vincent Cristallini and Henri Savall
  • Taylor's illusion : An historical account of the progression of the "tfw virus" / Alanna G. Kennedy
  • Bringing seam to the United States / John Conbere, Alla Heorhiadi, and Vincent Cristallini
  • Worldwide experimentat ion with seam
  • The socio-economic approach to management
  • Within American companies / John Conbere and Tom Oestreich
  • A case study of a nonprofit community center / John Conbere, Alla Heorhiadi, and Barbara Milon
  • Socio-economic approach to management within Mexican public organizations / Ral Arceo Alonzo, Martha Margarita Fernandez Ruvalcaba, and Veronique Zardet
  • Using seam as the philosophical basis for a graduate consulting program : Employing diverse consulting tools and approaches / Lawrence Lepisto and Randall Hayes
  • Seam implementation in mergers and acquisitions / Jean Caghassi
  • A French multinational family firm case study / Amandine Savall
  • An approach to socio-economic management consulting in China / Mark Hillon and Yue C. Hillon
  • Bridging seam with American perception
  • The art and science of revealing strategic value through seam / Eric Sanders
  • Advancing research that makes a difference / Peter F. Sorensen and Therese Yaeger
  • Contribution of the socio-economic approach to management to updating joseph wharton's legacy / Gilles Guyot
  • Deliberating cost : Deliberative practices in qualimetrics and the socio-economic approach to management / Robert P. Gephart, Jr
  • Ante-narrative spiral approach to seam / Rohny Saylors and David Boje
  • Seam ontological theory / Debra P. Hockenberry
  • Seam and critical theory / Chato Hazelbaker
  • Why seam? / Susan Huber
  • Conclusion : Final conference dialogue
  • Seam general bibliography
  • About the contributors.