The Institutional Compass: Method, Use and Scope /

This open access book presents a new generation multi-criteria, multi-stake holder, decision aide, called an "institutional compass". Based on hard data, the compass tells us what quality-direction we are heading in as an institution, region, system or organisation. The quality is not chos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Friend, Michèle Indira (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Series:	Methodos Series, Methodological Prospects in the Social Sciences, 18
Subjects:	Economic sociology. Operations research. Database management. Philosophy and social sciences. Economic Sociology. Operations Research and Decision Theory. Database Management. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. General Introduction
Chapter 2. Vocabulary
Chapter 3. The State of the Art in Decision Making
Part II: The Method for Constructing The Institutional Compass
Chapter 4. The Three Qualities Again
Chapter 5. Constructing an Institutional Compass: Methodology
Part III: Scope: More Uses of The Institutional Compass and Some Extensions
Chapter 6. Merging the Compass with Systems Science
Chapter 7. Adapting The Compass to Align with Ecological Economics Thinking
Chapter 8. Further Manipulations and Extensions using the Notion of Sphere
Chapter 9. The Compass as Representation
Chapter 10. The Compass for Qualitative Accounting. Part IV: Actual Case-Studies and Conclusion
Chapter 11. Case Study I: The World Health Organisation. Chapter 12. Case Study II: Report on Produce Label Project
Chapter 13. Case Study III: Regional Compass Hauts-de-France, Superimposing a Biorefinery. Chapter 14. Concluding Philosophical Remarks.