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- Renowned researchers and practitioners will contribute to a high quality of the articles (scientific rigor and relevance for practice)
- The work accompanies a well known symposium at the University of St. Gallen that discusses the topics addressed in the book in three panels
- The level of awareness for the book will be very high not only because of the high number of participants at the symposium, but also due to its interdisciplinary character
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
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What is balanced growth? This book shows that the definitions and implications of the concept of balanced growth vary significantly among the different disciplines in economic science, but are not exclusive at all.
Terms such as sustainability or balanced growth have become buzzwords. In practice, they are often a desirable vision rather than an achievable objective. Why? Doubts may arise about the extent to which such concepts are compatible with a modern market economy. Is balanced growth possible at all? Is it reasonable to accept balanced growth as a norm? Why should a balanced growth path be a desirable strategy to pursue for policymakers, managers, employees, and other societal stakeholders? Empirical evidence suggests that the actual worldwide economic growth is not balanced at all. Meanwhile, ever since the beginning of the financial and economic crisis in 2007 and its accompanying spillover effects, our globalizing world has uncompromisingly shown the flip side of its coin. Its crisis-prone character has intensified the discussion about our economic system’s sustainability. Questions related to acceptable sovereign debt levels, suitable trade deficits and surpluses, firms’ growth targets, resource management and efficiency have aroused high interest. What is the cause of the observed imbalances? In our opinion, this debate must involve rethinking the qualitative and quantitative dimension of our present understanding of the nature of economic growth.
This book accompanies the 9th DocNet Management Symposium of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. It contains contributions of the symposium's panel speakers, renowned authors to the field and young researchers. The Ph.D. students’ and post-doctoral association DocNet organizes the DocNet Management Symposium on a yearly basis with the goal to foster exchange between academia and practitioners.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Balanced Growth – the economics perspective
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Balanced Growth – the economics perspective
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Balanced Growth – a business perspective
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Balanced Growth – a resource management perspective
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Balanced Growth
Book Subtitle: Finding Strategies for Sustainable Development
Editors: Giulia Mennillo, Thomas Schlenzig, Elmar Friedrich
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24653-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-24652-4Published: 04 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42732-9Published: 26 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-24653-1Published: 04 November 2011
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 202
Topics: Business Ethics, Management, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Environmental Economics