Publications

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

Laszlo Zsolnai and Knut J. Ims were keynote speakers in the Sustainable Consumption Conference on October 8, 2008, at the Corvinus University of Budapest. They presented the ecological, ethical and economic case for frugality, and argued that downsizing the present scale of the economy is necessary for achieving ecological sustainability. Frugality lecture

The Fifth TransAtlantic Business Ethics Conference entitled “Business Ethics and Corporate Sustainability” was held at the SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan from October 3-4, 2008, in Milan. During the conference Laszlo Zsolnai presented his book project on “Just War – Just Business (An Inquiry into the Conditions of Legitimacy of Companies).” He suggested that the Just War theory provides an excellent methodological device for determining the conditions of legitimacy of companies. Just War – Just… Read More »Just War – Just Business

Antonio Tencati and Laszlo Zsolnai presented their paper “The Collaborative Enterprise” at the international workshop entitled “The Collaborative Enterprise: Creating Values for a Sustainable World” at Bocconi University Milan in 5-6, 2008. The workshop aimed at exploring alternative ways of organizing and doing business to the currently prevailing competitive model. The current management mainstream seems incapable of facing the challenges related to more sustainable patterns of development. All over the world innovative approaches have been… Read More »The Collaborative Enterprise

From September 20-22, 2007, Laszlo Zsolnai participated in both the Annual Conference of European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) and the Annual Conference of the European SPES Forum in Leuven, Belgium. In the EBEN conference he presented a paper on “Buddhist Economics for Business” while in the European SPES conference he presented the book Frugality: Rebalancing Spiritual and Material Values in Economic Life (edited by Luk Bouckaert, Hendrick Opdebeeck and Laszlo Zsolnai, 2008, Peter Lang, Oxford).

The Fourth  Transatlantic Business Ethics Conference  was organized by Thomas Dunfee and Thomas Donaldson at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia and held from October 5-7, 2006. A joint paper by Antonio Tencati and Laszlo Zsolnai on “The Collaborative Enterprise” was presented during the conference.

From September 17-18, 2006, Henri-Claude de Bettignies and Francois Lépinux offered an international workshop on “Globalization and the Common Good” at INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France. Laszlo Zsolnai lectured on “Nature, Society and Future Generations.” INSEAD Workshop

From June 22-23, 2006,  the  Eni Enrico Matei Foundation held its conference on  “The Potential of CSR to Support the Implementation of the EU Lisbon Strategy” in Milan. As one of the keynote speakers, Laszlo Zsolnai presented his paper on “Responsible Competitiveness.” He argued that the key to sustainable competitive advantage of companies is the “fittingness” in the ecological, social and cultural context in which they operate and their ability to serve multiple stakeholders in a nonsubstitutable way. On… Read More »On Responsible Competitiveness