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Designing Business and Management - Softcover

Sabine Junginger And Jürgen Faust

 
9780857856241: Designing Business and Management
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0857856243 ISBN 13: 9780857856241
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

Scholars and practitioners from management and design address the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective. Designing Business and Management combines practical models and grounded theories to improve organizations by design. For designing managers and managing designers, the book offers visual and conceptual models as well as theoretical concepts that connect the practice of designing with the activities of changing, organizing and managing. The book zooms in on designing beyond products and services. It focuses on designing businesses with a particular onus on social business and social entrepreneurship. Designing Business and Management contributes to and enhances the discourse between leading design and management scholars; offers a first outline of issues, concepts, practices, methods and principles that currently represent the body of knowledge pertaining to designing business, with a special focus on perceiving business as a social activity; and explores the practices of designing and managing, their commonalities, distinctions and boundaries.

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About the Authors

Sabine Junginger is Professor of Design and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of Transforming Public Services by Design (2016), co-editor of Managing Business and Design (Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Design Management (Bloomsbury, 2017).

Sabine is the co-founder and former chairwoman of ‘Politics for Tomorrow’, a German non-profit, co-founder of the Swiss Service Design Network and has retained an ongoing Fellowship from the Hertie School in Berlin. She has also served on the advisory boards of several governmental public sector innovation labs, including Mindlab in Denmark, GovLab in Austria and DesignGov in Australia. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards of the European Forum Alpbach and Dataport Hamburg and the OECD Government to Government public innovation program.



Jurgen Faust is president of the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Dr Faust's publications include Dialogues in the realm of Managing as Designing (2004) and Managing as Designing Needs: A Theory of Design in Designing Information and Organizations with a Positive Lens (2007).

From the Back Cover

Scholars and practitioners from management and design address the challenges and issues of designing business from a design perspective. Designing Business and Management combines practical models and grounded theories to improve organizations by design. For designing managers and managing designers, the book offers visual and conceptual models as well as theoretical concepts that connect the practice of designing with the activities of changing, organizing and managing. The book zooms in on designing beyond products and services. It focuses on designing businesses with a particular onus on social business and social entrepreneurship.

Designing Business and Management contributes to and enhances the discourse between leading design and management scholars; offers a first outline of issues, concepts, practices, methods and principles that currently represent the body of knowledge pertaining to designing business, with a special focus on perceiving business as a social activity; and explores the practices of designing and managing, their commonalities, distinctions and boundaries.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0857856243
ISBN 13 
9780857856241
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232