Socio-Economics: Toward a New Synthesis (Paperback)

I: Introduction; 1: Socio-Economics; 2: Socio-Economics; II: Socio-Economics?A General Approach; 3: “The Battle of the Methods”; 4: The Economic Person in Sociological Context; 5: Contemporary Liberals, Communitarians, and Individual Choices; 6: The Social Construction of Economic Institutions; III: Utility, Goals, and Values; 7: Rethinking Utility Theory; 8: The “Theory as Map” Analogy and Changes in Assumption Sets in Economics; 9: Values and Principles; IV: Socioeconomic Perspective on Executive Leadership and Entrepreneurship; 10: Stakeholders, Shareholders, Managers; 11: Entrepreneurship, Resource Cooptation, and Social Contracting; 12: A New Entrepreneurial Paradigm; V: The Role of Institutions; 13: Competition and Markets; 14: Human Values and Economic Behavior; VI: Corporate Culture; 15: Organizational Culture and “Collective” Human Capital; 16: Corporate Culture and Financial Performance; VIII: Boundaries; 17: The Boundaries of the Firm; 18: Interorganizational Bonds and Intraorganizational Behavior; VIII: The Next Steps; 19: Socio-Economics