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European SPES 2024 Conference

    The 20th Anniversary Conference of European SPES entitled “Spirituality & Business in the Anthropocene Era” was held at the Corvinus University of Budapest in June 20-22, 2024 in Budapest Hungary. Co-organizing partners of the conference included the Free University of Amsterdam – Faculty of Religion and Theology; Neyenrode Business University; the UNESCO Chair towards a Culture of Economic Peace, Grenoble School of Management; ABBS School of Management, Bangalore; S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research,… Read More »European SPES 2024 Conference

    30 Years of the Business Ethics Center

      On December 4, 2023 we celebrated the 30th Anniverary of the Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest. Presentations included  “Wise Governance for Sustainable Performance and Stakeholder Capitalism” by Mike Thompson (Anthesis, London) and “Interdisciplinary Business Ethics with Genuine Moral Commitment” by  Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest). The 30 Year Report of the Business Ethics Center can be seen here: BEC-30-years low resolution

      The Awakened Campus Global Initiative

        Columbia University Spirituality, Mind, Body Institute, the European SPES Institute, Leuven, and the Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest organize an international online conference on The Awakened Campus Global Initiative in November 29-30, 2022. The aim of the conference is to create a collaborative global network of higher education institutions to integrate spirituality in their activities. The overall goal is to help the formation of spiritual awareness of students, faculty and university leaders… Read More »The Awakened Campus Global Initiative

        Annual Report 2021

          The Annual Report 2021 summarizes the main projects and activities of the Busness Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest. BEC-Newsletter-2021-

          Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times

            Joanne B. Ciulla and Tobey K. Scharding (Eds.): Ethical Leadership in Troubling Times. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2019. (This book may be available at: Edward Elgar) Perhaps the fundamental question in CSR is: What are the main responsibilities of businesses and business leadership to society? Moreover, do the responsibilities of business change in times of social and political turmoil? The papers in this book tackle several aspects of these questions with chapters on business and politics,… Read More »Ethical Business Leadership in Troubling Times

            Annual Report 2020

              The Annual Report 2020 summarizes the main projects and activities of the Busness Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest. Business Ethics Center – Annual Report 2020

              Fight in the Artic

                For millennia, a thick layer of sea ice has defended the pristine, beautiful and utterly unique marine world of the Artic waters around Svalbard, in the Barents Sea. But global warming is melting the ice and industrial fishing has started moving in, leaving a trail of destruction behind. Svalbard’s seas hold some of the last pristine environments left on earth, home to some of our planet’s most incredible and mysterious creatures which thrived in this… Read More »Fight in the Artic

                Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business

                  Palgrave launches a new book series entitled „Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business: In Association with Future Earth”. Series editors are Paul Shrivastava (Future Earth & Concordia University Montreal) and Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest & European SPES Institute, Leuven). Sustainability in business is increasingly becoming the forefront issue for researchers, practitioners and companies the world over. Engaging with this immense challenge, Future Earth is a major international research platform of academics from a range of disciplines, with a… Read More »Palgrave Studies in Sustainable Business

                  Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy

                    Georges Enderle & Patrick E. Murphy (eds.) Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2015. (This book may be available at: Edward Elgar) Innovation has become a buzzword that promises dramatic changes in almost every field of business. Absent from this attention is a serious discussion of the ethical sides of dramatic change. To address this, editors Georges Enderle and Patrick E. Murphy gather a team of experts to fully examine the ethics of innovation… Read More »Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy

                    Business and the Greater Good: Rethinking Business Ethics in an Age of Crisis

                      Knut J. Ims & Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen (eds.) Business and the Greater Good: Rethinking Business Ethics in an Age of Crisis . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2015. (This book may be available at: Edward Elgar) With cutting-edge insights from leading European and North American scholars, this authoritative book addresses the fundamental problems of business in an age of crisis whilst presenting radical, but practical, solutions. The contributors explore three main value shifts: from inequality to equality, from the… Read More »Business and the Greater Good: Rethinking Business Ethics in an Age of Crisis