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Ethical Prospects – Economy, Society and Environment

    Zsolnai, L., Boda, Zs. & Fekete, L. (Eds.): Ethical Prospects – Economy, Society and Environment. Springer, 2009. (This book may be available at Amazon) The presents and summarizes new perspectives and leading-edge results in ethics reflecting on interconnected economic, social and environmental issues. The yearbook reports on innovative practices and policy reforms and provides a forum for discussion about groundbreaking theories. The main function of the journal is to present ideas and initiatives that lead… Read More »Ethical Prospects – Economy, Society and Environment

    Responsible Decision Making

      Laszlo Zsolnai: Responsible Decision Making. Transactions Publishers, New Brunswick (U.S.A.) & London (U.K.), 2008. (This book may be available at Amazon) This book represents Zsolnai’s attempt to build a model for making ethical decisions both effectively and efficiently. Therefore, the model is much broader than a purely analytical framework. It must tell us how to act rather than limit us to reflection on actions already performed; it must combine decision and praxiological analysis of human… Read More »Responsible Decision Making

      Frugality: Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life

        Bouckaert, Luk, Opdebeeck, Hendrik & Zsolnai, Laszlo (Eds.): Frugality: Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life . Peter Lang Publishing, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2008. (This book may be available at Amazon)   The book examines frugality as an ideal and an ‘art de vivre’ which implies a low level of material consumption and a simple lifestyle, to open the mind for spiritual goods as inner freedom, social… Read More »Frugality: Rebalancing Material and Spiritual Values in Economic Life

        Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business Spirituality

          Laszlo Zsolnai (Ed.): Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business Spirituality. Garant, Antwerpen-Apeldoom, 2008. (This book may be available at European SPES Forum) Values, purposes and functions of European and Asian businesses is a topic of vital importance today. The book contains selected papers of the “Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business, Ethics & Spirituality” annual conference of the European SPES Forum held in 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. Scholars and practitioners from England, Norway, Sweden, and Hungary as well as… Read More »Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business Spirituality

          Spirituality as a Public Good

            Luk Bouckaert & Laszlo Zsolnai (Eds.): Spirituality as a Public Good. Garant, Antwerpen-Apeldoom, 2007. (This book may be available at European SPES Forum) The ongoing process of globalisation, deconstructing our familiar social identities and institutional settings, makes it necessary to find new and deeper sources of self-orientation and moral imagination. Formal rational ethics does not suffice. Ethics needs spirituality as a driver to find its inner purpose and meaning. Selected papers from the foundational meeting… Read More »Spirituality as a Public Good

            Interdisciplinary Yearbook of Business Ethics

              Laszlo Zsolnai (Ed.): Interdisciplinary Yearbook of Business Ethics. Peter Lang, Oxford – Bern – Berlin – Bruxelles – Frankfurt am Mailn – New York – Wien, 2006. (This book may be available at Amazon) The Interdisciplinary Yearbook of Business Ethics is a product of 20 scholars and practitioners from Europe, America, Asia and Africa. Contributors represent a diversity of fields including organizational science, economics, systems theory, personality psychology, business ethics, finance, management, philosophy, political science,… Read More »Interdisciplinary Yearbook of Business Ethics

              Business within Limits: Deep Ecology and Buddhist Economics

                Laszlo Zsolnai & Knut J. Ims (Eds.): Business within Limits: Deep Ecology and Buddhist Economics. Peter Lang, Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2006. (This book may be available at Amazon) The book aims to explore the Deep Ecology perspective and Buddhist Economics for transforming business toward a more ecological and human form. Business is an existential enterprise because its decisions and policies greatly influence the fate and survival of nature,… Read More »Business within Limits: Deep Ecology and Buddhist Economics

                Globalization and the Community

                  Laszlo Zsolnai, Zsolt Boda, Tomasz Dolegowski, Knut Ims, Joseph Lozano, Eleanor O’Higgins, & Antonio Tencati ‘Globalization and the Community.’ European Business Forum, 2004, pp. 23-24 Members of the Business Ethics Group of the Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) explore alternative strategies for companies engaged in globalization. They argue that if business follows the unhindered, ‘market fundamentalist’ type of globalisation then it could lose its legitimacy. It is better for globalised business to enter into an open… Read More »Globalization and the Community

                  Spirituality and Ethics in Management

                    László Zsolnai (Ed.): Spirituality and Ethics in Management.  Kluwer Academic Publishers , Boston, Dordrecht & London, 2004. (This book may be available at Amazon) This  book is a collection of scholarly papers, which focus on the role of spirituality and ethics in renewing 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… Read More »Spirituality and Ethics in Management

                    Ethics in the Economy – Handbook of Business Ethics

                      Laszlo Zsolnai (Ed.): Ethics in the Economy – Handbook of Business Ethics. Peter Lang, Oxford – Bern – Berlin – Bruxelles – Frankfurt am Main – New York – Wien, 2002. (This book may be available at Amazon) The book aims to provide a comprehensive, new look at business ethics topics and models from a European perspective. Apart from theoretical arguments and empirical data, case studies and games are used to get closer to real… Read More »Ethics in the Economy – Handbook of Business Ethics