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The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business

    Luk Bouckaert & Laszlo Zsolnai (Eds.): The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. (This book may be available at Amazon) The handbook summarizes the most important issues, approaches and models in the field of spirituality in business, economics and society. It presents a comprehensive pluralistic view covering all the major religious and spiritual traditions. It is a response to three developments that challenge the business-as-usual mindset. Firstly, in response to a growing… Read More »The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business

    Spiritual Humanism and Economic Wisdom

      Hendrik Opdebeeck & Laszlo Zsolnai (Eds.): Spiritual Humanism and Economic Wisdom. Garant, Antwerpen and Apeldoom, 2011. (This book may be available at Garant) The book contains essays in honor of the 70th anniversary of K.U.Leuven professor Luk Bouckaert, co-founder of the European SPES forum, which aims to make spirituality accessible as a public good to as many people as possible. In the spirit of the European SPES forum, this volume covers issues of contemporary economics… Read More »Spiritual Humanism and Economic Wisdom

      Spirituality and Ethics in Management (Second Edition)

        Laszlo Zsolnai (Ed.): Spirituality and Ethics in Management. Springer, 2011. (This book may be available at Springer) The book is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on the role of spirituality and ethics in renewing the contemporary management praxis. The basic argument is that a more inclusive, holistic and peaceful approach to management is needed if business and political leaders are to uplift the environmentally degrading and socially disintegrating world of our age. The book… Read More »Spirituality and Ethics in Management (Second Edition)

        Respect and Economic Democracy

          Luk Bouckaert & Pasquale Arena (eds.) Respect and Economic Democracy. Garant, Antwerp/Appeldom, 2010. (This book may be available at: European SPES Forum) Respect and Economic Democracy is based on the hypothesis that democracy will become a growing ingredient of good business and leadership. Many contributions of this sixth European SPES Cahier disclosing new practices of democratic entrepreneurship confirm this hypothesis. The authors assume that economic democracy implies a commitment rooted in respect and explore the spiritual, ethical and… Read More »Respect and Economic Democracy

          Heroes and Anti-heroes: European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership

            Rita Ghesquiere & Knut Ims (eds.) Heroes and Anti-heroes. European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership.. Garant, Antwerp & Apeldoom, 2010. (This book may be available at: European SPES Forum) The authors share the idea that narratives offer their readers an alternative fictional world. In doing this they hold up a mirror that confronts the reader with otherness that questions his self-evident norms and values but also his daily practices. Both heroes and antiheroes contribute to this process… Read More »Heroes and Anti-heroes: European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership

            Blocked Seminar in Vienna

              The CEMS Business Ethics Faculty Group taught a blocked seminar on The Future International Manager at Vienna University of Economics and Business on September 27 – October 1, 2010. The seminar was hosted by the Gender and Diversity Institute. The seminar was based on the the CEMS book “The Future International Manager” (Palgrave, 2009). Faculty included Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest), Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Mary Ann Danowitz (Vienna University of Economics and Business),… Read More »Blocked Seminar in Vienna

              Leadership, Spirituality and the Common Good. East and West Approaches

                Henri-Claude de Bettignies & Mike Thompson (eds.) Leadership, Spirituality and the Common Good. East and West Approaches. Garant, Antwerpen/Apeldoorn, 2009. (This book may be available at: European SPES Forum) The authors of the book believe that the European and Asian traditions of spirituality provide rich resources for world seeking to rediscover the Common Good. The particular focus of this Cahier is on the need for responsible leaders who understand and accept their responsibility to steward the resources in… Read More »Leadership, Spirituality and the Common Good. East and West Approaches

                Imagine Europe. The Search for European Identity and Spirituality

                  Luk Bouckaert & Johanan Eynikel (eds.) Imagine Europe. The Search for European Identity and Spirituality. Garant, Antwerpen/Apeldoorn, 2009. (This book may be available at: European SPES Forum) Authors of the book share the idea of Europe as a space of unity-in-diversity based on relations of reciprocity and fraternity. They see it as Europe’s mission to enlarge its post-war idea of peace and integration into a global action. Even though the European Union started in the sphere of economics,… Read More »Imagine Europe. The Search for European Identity and Spirituality

                  PhD Workshop in Behavioral Business Ethics

                    The Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest organized the “Behavioral Business Ethics” CEMS PhD Seminar in Budapest in March 20-22, 2009. There were 10 participants including PhD students from London School of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration – Bergen, and Corvinus University of Budapest. The seminar introduced cutting-edge results and approaches in business ethics. Behaviorial economics and moral psychology were applied to arrive at more robust models of business ethics. PhD… Read More »PhD Workshop in Behavioral Business Ethics

                    Business, Globalization and the Common Good

                      Henri-Claude de Bettignies and François Lépineux (ed.) Business, Globalization and the Common Good. Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2009. (This book may be available at: Amazon) Globalization and information technology are driving the world into a new era. Is it the responsibility of business to pursue the common good – and more precisely, to participate in the construction of the global common good? This book brings together contributions from various disciplines,… Read More »Business, Globalization and the Common Good