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First edition. |
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1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding megatrends with the potential to reshape opportunities for growth. Three cities of the future are emerging. The first is Petropolis, the alluringly familiar but decreasingly resilient city, locked into the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Capitalism.
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Capitalism. |
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Business enterprises.
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Business enterprises. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blowfield, Michael. Turnaround challenge : business and the city of the future. Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 2013 xvi, 245 pages 9780199672219 |
| ISBN |
9780191652387 (electronic book) |
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0191652385 (electronic book) |
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9780199672219 |
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