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The Living Company: Growth Learning and Longevity in Business (Paperback)
by Arie P. De Geus (Author)
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Product details
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd; New Ed edition (8 April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857881850
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857881851
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 25,115 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The average life span of a Fortune 500 company is less than half a century, yet there also are corporations around the world that have been in business for 200, 500, even 700 years. Arie de Geus, a retired Royal Dutch/Shell Group executive, maintains after studying both extremes that the most enduring treat their businesses as "living work communities" rather than pure economic machines. The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business persuasively outlines his resultant prescription for organisational longevity. --Amazon.com

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Explores the theme of organizational learning. Provides an investigation of the consequences of building a sustainable work community for human resource management, strategic planning and organisational structure. A case is made for a public debate on corporate governance and the reallocation of power in a company.