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An Energic Perspective

In: The Intent of Business

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  • Gregory Gull

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Given that a mechanistic orientation and a hedonistic theory of human behavior are not appropriate as the basis of a sustainable economics and correspondingly management theory and practice, then the need to change the why, what and how of business should be evident. Placing self-interest, and its associated amassing of material wealth, above the development of humankind is neither responsible nor sustainable. The world we experience should no longer be thought of as independent inert objects in motion, or even as a linearly interdependent network of systems, seeking to enhance their own interest. It is more dynamically complex than that, as Niels Bohr noted, ‘isolated material particles are abstraction, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems’ (Bohr, 1934, p. 57). It is time to see reality not as inert stuff out there to be manipulated for personal gain, but to understand our world as a unified holarchical system, wherein all entities are deeply interconnected and interdependent (including human beings and their creations). Doing so necessitates penetrating beneath the surface of our phenomenal world to truly know and understand its underlying principles and our corresponding responsibilities.

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  • Gregory Gull, 2013. "An Energic Perspective," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Intent of Business, chapter 7, pages 123-145, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-35208-8_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137352088_8
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