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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

        Business Ethics and Corporate Sustainability

          Antonio Tencati & Francesco Perrini (eds.) Business Ethics and Corporate Sustainability. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2011. (This book may be available at: Edward Elgar) This authoritative book includes cutting-edge insights from leading European and North American scholars who reflect upon business ethics’ foundations, firms, markets and stakeholders in order to design more sustainable patterns of development for business and society. Together, the contributing authors advance critical, innovative and imaginative perspectives to rethink the mainstream models and address the sustainability… Read More »Business Ethics and Corporate Sustainability

          Webinar Series in Bombay, India

            From January 15 – February 5, 2021 Paul Shrivastava (Penn State University), Eleanor O’Higgins (University College Dublin), Peter Pruzan (Coepnhagen Business School) and Laszlo Zsolnai conducted a webinar series on Ethics, Sustainability and Spirituality at the S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Bombay, India. Webinar Series in Bombay, India

            Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally

              Paul Shrivastava, Mark Stafford Smith, Karen O’Brien, and Laszlo Zsolnai ‘Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally.’ One Earth, 2020, vol.2, no. 4 Despite the decades-long efforts of sustainability science and related policy and action programs, humanity has not gotten closer to global sustainability. With its focus on the natural sciences, sustainability science is not able to contribute sufficiently to the global transition to sustainability. This Perspective argues for transforming sustainability science into a… Read More »Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally

              The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions

                Laszlo Zsolnai & Bernadette Flanagan (Eds.): The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions. Routledge, London and New York, 2019. (This book may be available at https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Spirituality-i…) Increasingly, it is being recognized that spirituality, defined here as “a multiform search for a transcendent meaning of life that connects them to all living beings and brings them in touch with God or ‘Ultimate Reality,’” is an aspect of almost every sphere and aspect… Read More »The Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society and the Professions

                Art, Spirituality and Economics – Liber Amicorum for Laszlo Zsolnai

                  Luk Bouckaert, Knut J. Ims, and Peter Rona (Eds.): Art, Spirituality and Economics – Liber Amicorum for Laszlo Zsolnai. Springer, 2018. (This book may be available at Springer) This volume celebrates the work of Laszlo Zsolnai in the field of the ethical and spiritual aspects of economic life, who has made significant contributions to the connection between ethics, spirituality, aesthetics and economic theory. The book offers a selection of essays concerned with the ethical, spiritual… Read More »Art, Spirituality and Economics – Liber Amicorum for Laszlo Zsolnai

                  Love in Business: Sentimentality or the Ultimate Virtue?

                    Kenneth J. Barnes and Laszlo Zsolnai made a joint presentation on “Love in Business: Sentimentality or the Ultimate Virtue?” at the European SPES Annual Conference in May 24-26, 2018 in Leuven, Belgium. They argued that On the basis of calculative self-interest business cannot regain trust from the public and cannot get deep support from its stakeholders. For re-establishing trust and getting deep support business should show that it loves and serves its all stakeholders. Love… Read More »Love in Business: Sentimentality or the Ultimate Virtue?