Dr. Jack Quarter examines business owners who use their firms as laboratories for social innovation. After an introduction to this phenomenon in an historica perspective and discussing the 19th-century British industrialist Robert Owen, he provides 11 case studies of contemporary innovators from six countries - the UK, US, the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and New Zealand.
ISBN 1-56720-414-7 / $59.95 hc / 2000 / 216pp
Available from Greenwood Publishing