Integral Community

Integral Community moves the transformation journey for enterprises and society on from the creation of a new macro-economic framework to practical implementation of authentic or integral development. The authors argue that there are two major fields of force prevailing in today's world - the global commons, reflecting our common heritage and the other reflecting local and national singularity, where the notion of feeding off ancient local heritage and talent is key. They also identify four different culturally laden worldviews as Southern (humanistic), Eastern (holistic), Northern (rational), and Western (pragmatic). The enterprise and social innovation in Africa with which the authors are involved provides a lesson in the sort of differentiation and integration needed to operate a living economy, with local identity and global integrity, all illustrated through a rural case, Chinyika, with which they have been intimately involved, whereby 100,000 have become self sufficient over the past five years. Integral Community is a book for academics and students of business, economics, development studies and agriculture, and for policy makers and practitioners concerned with the developing world.