Publications

Laszlo Zsolnai was lecturing at the “Should we get rid of CSR?” international seminar at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management on February 18, 2014. He argued that the opportunistic use of ethics is counter-productive for business because It is perceived as cheating by the stakeholders who will react accordingly. Ethics brings material benefits for companies if and only if it is not used to produce material gains. If we want to get closer to… Read More »From CSR to Collaborative Enterprise

On November 27, 2013 Laszlo Zsolnai gave a faculty lecture at the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Corvinus University of Budapest on the perverse effects ofecessive executive compensation. He argued that one-dimensional economic incentives may destroy existential, social, and ecological values that influence the manager’s commitment to ensure responsible business conduct, and have negative spillover effects that may reduce the manager’s performance. How Economic Incentives Destroy Values

Initiated by Laszlo Zsolnai the Von Hügel Institute of the St. Edmund College, University of Cambridge organized an international workshop on „The Economic and Financial Crisis and the Human Person” on June 8-9, 2013 in Cambridge. Participants from Cambridge, Oxford, Leuven explored the current problematic from a humanistic s The Economic and Financial Crisis and the Human Person The Failure of Materialistic Management

On April 23, 2013 Laszlo Zsolnai gave a faculty presentation on Responsible Leadership and Reasonable Action at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Virginia, USA. In his presentation entitled “Responsible Leadership and Reasonable Action” he argued that business leadership should pass the test of ecology, future generations and society. It means that responsible leadership seeks holistic value creation, i.e. achieving the goals of organizations or communities in ecological, future respecting and pro-social ways… Read More »Responsible Leadership and Reasonable Action

Laszlo Zsolnai was lecturing on  Ecological Sustainability and Collaborative Business at the Business Beyond Tomorrow conference organized by the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University in Montreal on Marh 15, 2013.  A related video was produced with him on the importance of changing the self-interest doctrine of our time. Ecological Sustainability and Collaborative Business

Laszlo Zsolnai gave a presentation on Materialistic versus Non-materialistic Management in the TransAtlantic Business Ethics Conference in October 19-20, 2012 at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in Bergen, Norway. He argued that the materialistic management model cannot produce true well-being for people but actually undermines it. By advocating economic action on the basis of money-making and justifying its success by generating profit the materialistic model encourages irresponsible behavior of economic actors toward others, contributes… Read More »Materialistic versus Non-materialistic Management

Laszlo Zsolnai gave a presentation on “Spirituality and Business – Implications for Sustainability” in the faculty workshop of the Institute of Management, Vienna University of Economics on October 9, 2012. He argued that achieving sustainability actors should consider the whole persons and the whole systems, give priority to intrinsic motivation, orient themselves toward the common good, and measure success in multi-dimensional, holistic way. Zsolnai also empahisized that materialistic value orientation destroys material values, including nature.… Read More »Spirituality and Business – Implications for Sustainability

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