Affiliations: [a] Fordham University Business Schools, NY, USA | [b] Panteion University of Athens, Athens, Hellas
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Corresponding author: Nicholas C. Georgantzas, 113 West 60th Street, Suite 617-D, New York, NY 10023-7484, USA. Tel.: +1 917 667 4022; Fax: +1 212 765 5573; E-mail: [email protected] (N.C. Georgantzas), [email protected] (G.D. Contogeorgis).
Abstract: Modernity might see the 2009 Copenhagen summit farce as a new world war against humanity. But intellectual resistance is brewing, perhaps as never before, seeking justice for planet Earth, with universal human liberty and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with impunity. Now we are merely loyal subjects of the polyarchy systems commanding our respective countries or states. We are not real citizens in the true sense or the word. All we have is a dissenting or imaginary, i.e., negative (−), personal liberty or, alternatively, individual rights, just like the slaves had in classical Hellas. So our body polity must transform polyarchy to real democracy. Given the resurgence of interest in democracy internationally, the purpose of this article is two-fold. First, it accurately delineates and shows the authentic-democracy dimensions. Extant small and medium enterprise (SME) growth frameworks take their role in a multi-perspective dialectic that unveils democracy's temporal dimension bundles. Second, the article shows how SMEs can form, again, as they did during its authentic democracy era in classical Hellas, the requisite economic infrastructure for democracy to re-emerge again in modernity, as it did in antiquity: as a pure socio-political phenomenon. Aristotle's oikonomia versus chrematistike provides a bridge for modern SMEs to cross beyond break-even analysis. SMEs can provide the systemic leverage required to support democracy in all its splendor of temporal dimensions.
