Publications

Laszlo Zsolnai gave a key-note lecture entitled “The Market Disclosure of Being – A Heideggerian Approach to Business” in the Spirituality and Sustainability: New Path to Entrepreneurship international conference in September 21-23, 2012 in Visegrad, Hungary. He argued that despite of Heidegger’s warning not modern technology but modern-day business destroys Being and beings. With its exclusive focus on profit-making modern-day business tends to violate the integrity and diversity of natural ecosystems, the autonomy and culture of local… Read More »The Market Disclosure of Being

On May 23, 2012 Laszlo Zsolnai gave a lecture on Ecological Sustainability and Collaborative Business at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. He showed that the competitive mainstream business model is not compatible with ecological sustainability. He argued that the collaborative business model fits better in ecological sustainability. If we want to get closer to a sustainable world we need to generate virtuous circles where good dispositions, good behaviour and good… Read More »Ecological Sustainability and Collaborative Business

On May 14, 2012 Laszlo Zsolnai gave a presentation on Spirituality & Business at Lord Ashcroft International Business School in Cambridge. He presented the Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business what he edited with Luk Bouckaert. The main conclusion was that materialistic management models are based on egoistic motivation and measure success in money terms only while  spiritually oriented enterprises are intrinsically motivated to serve the common good and measure success in multi-dimensional terms. Spirituality and Business… Read More »Spirituality and Business

Laszlo Zsolnai was keynote speaker at conference “Responsibility in Ecopnomics – The Legacy of E.F. Schumacher” in 22-23 September 2011, in Antwerp, Belgium. His presentation was entitled “The Importnce of Meta-economics”. Meta-economics is the basic assumptions about the subject-matter, value-orientation and methodology of economics.  Zsolnai’s paper reconstructs the meta-economic foundation of mainstream economics and that of alternative economics initiated by E.F. Schumacher. It shows how the emerging alternative economics transcends the erroneous meta-economic assumptions of… Read More »The Importance of Meta-Economics

On August 9th, 2011 an international workshop “Responsibility, Deep Ecology and the Self” was held in honor of Professor Knut J. Ims on his 60th anniversary at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen, Norway. Laszlo Zsolnai gave his lecture under the title “The Ethics of Systems Thinking”. He argued that the Richness of Being can be preserved if we take the whole system view and use multidimensional decision making methodologies to evaluate the ecological,… Read More »The Ethics of Systems Thinking

Laszlo Zsolnai gave a lecture on Collaborative Business at the Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Corporate Responsibility (TADA) at the University of St. Gallen in May 3, 2011. Nearly 30 PhD students from Germany, Canada and Switzerland participated in the program. Zsolnai presented the collaboratrive business framework  which fosters virtuous circles between companies and their stakehoders where good dispositions, good behaviour and good expectations reinforce one another. Collaborative Business

Laszlo Zsolnai was lecturing on Behaviorial Business Ethics at the Constance Academy of Business Ethics in October 7-8, 2010 in Konstanz, Germany. In his lecture he argued that if economic agents become self-concerned then it is likely that – by employing moral disengagement mechanisms – their self-exonerative maneuvers will do harm to others. Serving the common good economic agents should care about and pursue both self and community interests. Behaviorial Business Ethics- Business and the Common Good

Invited by the Global Responsible Leadership Ambassadors Laszlo Zsolnai gave a lecture on “Business as a Profession: Serving the Common Good” at the Anglia Ruskin University Aschroft International  Business School on November 25, 2009 in Cambrdige, UK. In his lecture Zsolnai argued that unless future business managers demonstrate that they serve the common good in their daily practice, the legitimacy and moral standing of the business profession remain questionable. Business as a Profession- Serving the Common Good

On November 6, 2009 Laszlo Zsolnai presented the main findings of the Future Generations research project of the Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest in a conference organized by the Ombudsman for Future Generations Office of the Hungarian Parlament. He demonstrated that every country in Europe presents some burden on future generations in one or more domains of ecological, financial, human and intellectual capitals. There are countries (e.g. Bulgaria, Hungary,Poland, Latvia) which present burdens on future generations… Read More »The Fate of Future Generations in Europe

In  April 17-18, 2009 Laszlo Zsolnai presented a paper on Accounting for Future Generations in the 5th European SPES Conference at the University of Catania, Sicily. His presentations focused on three problems. (1) Who are future generations? (2) What is our obligations to future generations? (3) How can we account our activities for future generations? Accounting for Future Generations Fifth Annual Conference of the European SPES Forum Hosted by the University of Catania, Italy