Covenons! We Owe Our Store to the Company's Soul

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ID12318963
AuthorsCharles J Yoos (Fort Lewis College, corresponding author), Charles J Yoos ii (Charles J. Yoos II is Professor (Management), School of Business Administration, Fort Lewis College, EBH 160, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301 USA.), James R Barker (0000-0001-9248-2470, James R. Barker is Professor (Organizational Theory and Strategy), Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management, Waikato Management School, Waikato University, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand., corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume14
Issue2
Pages141-155
Publication date2008-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0971-6858 • E-ISSN: 0973-0737
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/097168580801400205
OpenAlexW2107558178
LanguageEN
References cited8

We argue that in contemporary business organizations, in which fundamental purpose is construed to be increased value—especially in ‘participative’ organizations, in which non–hierarchal interaction (for example, work teams) is the norm; and in ‘adaptive’ organizations, in which unpredictable change is the rule—a process of values covenanting will be much more valueable than just espoused values or even values covenants. We propose such a process model for organizational values covenanting and argue that such covenanting reflects an anthropomorphism of the human character development process, validated in terms of the theory of viable systems

Business · Character (mathematics · Covenant · Economics · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Management · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Sociology · Soul · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Management Theory and Practice · Mathematics · Organizational Learning and Leadership · Philosophy

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