The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Spirituality, Ethics and Sustainability

      • Laszlo Zsolnai

      Pages 3-11

3. New Perspectives in Business Ethics and Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Spirituality: The Missing Link in Business Ethics

      • Luk Bouckaert

      Pages 15-26

   3. Spiritual Sustainability Management

      • Hendrik Opdebeeck

      Pages 27-36

   4. The Inner Perspective—The Sufi Approach

      • András László

      Pages 37-46

   5. Deep Ecology and Personal Responsibility

      • Knut J. Ims

      Pages 47-56

   6. Buddhist Spiritual Orientation to Nature and Sustainability

      • Gabor Kovacs

      Pages 57-67

   7. Sustainability and Wisdom: The Power of the Fable

      • Rita Ghesquière

      Pages 69-79

4. Innovative Practices and Policy Reforms for Sustainability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Sustainocracy: Spirituality and Sustainable Progress

      • Jean-Paul Close

      Pages 83-98

   3. Quakers and Climate Change

      • Laurie Michaelis

      Pages 99-107

   4. Sustainability and Long-Term Growth in the Financial Market System

      • Aloy Soppe

      Pages 109-123

   5. Spiritual-Based Entrepreneurship for an Alternative Food Culture: The Transformational Power of Navdanya

      • Arundhati Virmani, François Lépineux

      Pages 125-142

   6. The Enforcement of the Self-Interests of Nature Transformers

      • János Vargha

      Pages 143-157

   7. Entrepreneurship Inspired by Nature

      • Nel Hofstra

      Pages 159-166

5. Spiritual-Based Leadership in Business

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Spiritual-based Leadership: A Paradox of Pragmatism

      • Peter Pruzan

      Pages 169-172

   3. Educating Moral Business Leaders Without the Fluff and Fuzz

      • Joanne B. Ciulla

      Pages 173-176

This book discloses the spiritual dimension in business ethics and sustainability management. Spirituality is understood as a multiform search for meaning which connects people with all living beings and God or Ultimate Reality. In this sense, spirituality is a vital source in social and economic life. The volume examines the spiritual orientations to nature and business in different cultural traditions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sufism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism. It studies how spirituality and ecology can contribute to transforming contemporary management theory and praxis. It discusses new leadership roles and business models that emerge for sustainability in business and shows how entrepreneurship can be inspired by nature and spirituality in a meaningful way.

• Achieving Sustainability
• Deep Ecology
• Deep Ecology and Personal Responsibility
• Ecological Sustainability
• Financial Ethics after the Crisis
• Positioning Spirituality and Sustainable Progress
• Spiritual Sustainability Management
• Spiritual orientation to nature in Buddhism
• Spiritual-Based Entrepreneurship
• Spirituality of Economic Practice
• Spiritually Based Leadership
• Spiritually-based Leadership
• Sustainability and Wisdom
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Value Based Leadership

• Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, Hungary

  László Zsolnai

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