Advances in Relational Economics

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff is professor of Philosophy of Management and Business Ethics at the Department of Business and Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark. Rendtorff's research has a broad perspective on organizational theory, management, ethics and legitimacy of firms and corporations, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and philosophy of law. Lukas Belser is a Ph.D. student at the Chair of Institutional Economics at Zeppelin University. His research focuses on strategy and governance in network organizations. He is also interested in performance measurement and intangible assets. Belser holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in general management.Jessica Geraldo Schwengber is a post-doctoral fellow at the Chair of Institutional Economics at Zeppelin University, project manager of the Transcultural Caravan Network, and managing director of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin | LEIZ. Her research interests include organization theory, relational economics and transcultural management. Jessica Geraldo Schwengber holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Economics from the University of Roma Tor Vergata (Italy) and a PhD from Zeppelin University (Germany).

• Chapter 1. Introduction The Relational View on Economics 2023 – Challenges to a New Paradigm (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff).- Part I. Relational Nature of the Firm.- Chaper 2. Dynamic Network Models in Relational Theory of the Firm (Josef Wieland).- Chaper 3. A Relational View on Organization Ontology – Insights from Methodological Relationism, Process Philosophy,and Critical Realism (Jessica Geraldo Schwengber).- Chapter 4. The Nature of the Firm as Corporate Actor. Relational Economics and the Challenges of Legal Personhood (Marc Hübscher).- Part II. Relational Management and Leadership.- Chapter 5. Stakeholder Management and Relational Economics (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff).- Chapter 6. Cooperative Economics and Management and Abolitionist Relationality (Jerome Warren).- Chapter 7. Understanding Barriers to Relational Contracting: Exploring Challenges and Solutions (Tim Cummins).- Chapter 8. Leadership as a Temporal Abstraction: A Conceptual Reflection (Willem Fourie).- Part III. Relational Philosophy.- Chapter 9. Relational Process Atomism. Epistemological and Methodological Considerations on the Metaphysics of Transactions (Michael Schramm).- Chapter 10. A Dynamic Relational Ontology and Its Implications for Epistemology (Gil Santos).- Chapter 11. Relational and Transactional Rationality in Chinese Thought and Social Practice (Matthias Niedenführ).