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This book contributes to the development of a relational view of economics. Bringing together experts from various disciplines, it offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of relational transactions. In contrast to discrete market transactions as a traditional subject of economic discourse, the book analyses the role of relational transactions in the study of economic phenomena. The contributing authors address topics such as global intra- and inter-company networks, intersectoral stakeholder management, relational contracts, and transcultural management approaches. Accordingly, the book makes an important contribution to an emerging field of research.
Introduction
Preface
Manifesto for a Relational Economics
Economic Theory and Relational Method
Relational Economics: Theoretical Framework and Managerial Implications—A Short Introduction
Why We Could Need a Relational Economics and Why Standard Economics and Its (Orthodox) Derivations Do not Help
Modeling Relational Transactions
Shared Value Creation and Social Responsibility
Bringing Inspiration from the Past: A Renaissance Manual for Merchants
Shared Value Statement: New Perspectives on Measuring Business Value Creation
Managing Global Production Networks: Towards Social Responsibility via Inter-organizational Reliability?
Incentives, Autonomous Motivation, and Bank Managers’ Socially Responsible Behavior
Global Value Networks and Relational Contracts
Transcultural Cooperation in Global Networks. A Contribution to the Research Program of Relational Economics
Leadership in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) that Address the SDGs: Relational Leadership and Ubuntu in Dialogue
Relational Contracting in Practice: A Route to Relational Economics?
Epistemology and Relational Economics
Relational Processes in Whitehead’s Metaphysics and Commons’ Economics. The Relevance of Cosmology for Economic Theory
Relational Money—Working to Define the Conditions of Non-payment
Reasons Theoretical Underpinnings, and Core Features of a Novel Paradigm of Acting in Economics
Contracts as Cooperation: About an Implicit Ethics of Transactions