Presentations

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

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