The Twilight of Western Thought by Herman Dooyeweerd

The Twilight of Western Thought by Herman Dooyeweerd

To succeed in the global marketplace for new goods and services, American corporations must learn how to innovate and develop new businesses better and faster than their competition. To do this requires a special culture--one that is much different from the traditional culture of American business. Oden's unique book looks for the first time at the relationships among these elements--innovation, intrapreneurship, and corporate culture--and points out how these three elements can be integrated to achieve the maximum advantage in global competition. A concise but comprehensive, readable text and resource for corporate management, professionals involved in product development, and teachers and students with special interest in organizational development, innovation, and intrapreneurship.

Oden first looks at the actions that corporations must take to create a culture that is conducive to the venturing process. He makes clear that corporations must have not only a culture that supports innovation and intrapreneurship, but an organization and work force that can adapt quickly to exigencies. Also required is a well-structured venturing process. He describes this process in the second part of the book, breaking it down into three phases: concept development, technical development, and business development. Concept development is concerned only with product ideas, while hardware and software are developed in the technical phase. Business development concludes the process by assuring that the product succeeds in the marketplace. Written in a practical, non-technical style, Oden's book will prove to be a hands-on, action-oriented manual for improving the corporate venturing process and its output.

Dooyeweerd, Herman: - Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) was born in Amsterdam to Calvinistic parents whose convictions and way of life were profoundly influenced by Abraham Kuyper, the great Dutch statesman, educator and journalist, and one of the protestant leaders through which the evangelical wing of Dutch reformed protestantism emerged. Dooyeweerd is recorded to have had a prolific career as a researcher in philosophy, during which he wrote various profound literary works such as The New Critique of Theoretical Thought, Roots of Western Culture, In the Twilight of Western Thought, and more. He is, without a doubt, one of the most important philosophers that the Netherlands has ever produced, comparable only perhaps with Baruch de Spinoza.

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ISBN 13	9780888152176
ISBN 10	0888152175
Title	The Twilight of Western Thought
Author	Herman Dooyeweerd
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Paideia Press / Reformational Publishing Project
Year published	2012-09-15
Number of pages	178
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