Spirituality and Corporate Social Responsibility: Interpenetrating Worlds

by David Bubna-Litic (Editor)

Overview

Religion and spirituality have often been treated with a secular disdain by management theorists. Recently, the tide has begun to turn and there is a growing openness to cite spirituality in academic analysis and debate, and when considering issues of practical concern to those engaged in the actual business of management. This provocative book brings together a range of leading thinkers to consider the relationship between spirituality and corporate social responsibility. The book's contributors examine spirituality as an inherent dimension of corporate life even if it is only known through its absence - and through the negative consequences of this absence on people and the planet. With contributors from four continents, David Bubna-Litic has assembled a range of fascinating perspectives having their origins in traditions that include Christianity, Process Theology, Hinduism, Contemporary Buddhism, Deep Ecology, Humanism, Post-Modern and Post-Romantic Spirituality. Spirituality and Corporate Social Responsibility is a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in ways in which spirituality relates to what is or what should be driving businesses and organizations to more responsible behaviour.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317051183
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/2016
Series:	Corporate Social Responsibility
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	244
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Bubna-Litic

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction, David Bubna-Litic; Part I Issues; Chapter 1 The Disappearance of the Spiritual Thinker, Pankaj Mishra; Chapter 2 A Process Model for Management, Charles Birch, David Paul; Chapter 3 Business and Society, Winton Higgins; Chapter 4 The Technological Project as the Spiritual Quest of Modernity, Nicholas Capaldi; Chapter 5 The Three Poisons, Institutionalized, David R. Loy; Chapter 6 The Relational Firm: A Buddhist and Feminist Analysis, Julie Nelson; Part II Pathways for Change; Chapter 7 The Organizational Whisperer: What Animal and Human Behaviour Can Teach Us About Producing Healthy People and Integral Organizations, Ian I. Mitroff, Terri D. Egan, C. Murat Alpaslan, Sandy E. Green; Chapter 8 In Search of the Future: Notes for Spiritual Adventurers, Dexter Dunphy; Chapter 9 Humanistc Management Educaton: Richness, Challenges and Possibilites, Ana Maria Davila Gomez, David Crowther; Chapter 10 Standardizing Corporate Social Responsibility, Winton Higgins;

Editorial Reviews

'Once upon a time, management was seen purely as an economically rational activity whose motives were uncluttered by other than efficient means-ends calculations. No more; a new spirituality is abroad and making inroads into what were once no-go territories of decision. This book is a significant challenge to the ethics of a disinterested management as well as a disinterested theory of its practice.' - Stewart Clegg, Director of Innovative Collaboration Alliances and Networks (ICAN), University of Technology, Sydney. 'A great read, the collection is diverse and wide-ranging, scholarly, yet readable. It raises fundamental questions about the very nature, meaning, purpose and direction of today’s organizations, and there is not a single aspect of change - and potential change - that it fails to touch in one way or another. I like the way you have brought management and non-management thinkers together, in so doing enabling you to address boundary-crossing issues in relation to the existential and philosophical, theoretical and practice dimensions of organization. At every level there is something for the organizational specialist, and some nice overlaps with other popular areas of research like staff well-being, organizational activism and consumer experience.' - S P Bate, Professor Emeritus, University College London

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