The Business Ethics Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest and the European SPES organized an international conference on Contemplative Science & Management in May 19–21, 2017 in Budapest, Hungary. Collaborative partners included the Mind & Life Europe and the Hungary-Bhutan Friendship Society.
The conference invited scholars and practitioners devoted to exploring and presenting new developments in contemplative inquiry related to Buddhist economics, wellbeing, social transformation, mindful organizations, and ecological worldview in the management context.
The aim of the Contemplative Science & Management conference was threefold: (1) to develop working models inspired by contemplative inquiry for the transformation of management practices in a variety of organizational settings, (2) to build a collaborative platform for scholars and practitioners devoted to contemplative inquiry in management and business, and (3) to foster the development and expansion of Buddhism-related approaches in economics and other social sciences.
Speakers of the conference included:
Clair Brown (University of California, Berkeley)
Sander Tideman (Mind & Life Europe)
Knut Ims (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen)
Vincenzo Giorgino (University of Turin)
Ora Setter (Tel Aviv University)
Xabier Renteria-Uriarte (University of the Basque Country, Bilbao)
Joel Magnusson (independent economist, Portland)
Ernest NG (The University of Hong Kong)
Zoltan Valcsicsak (Hungary-Bhutan Friendship Society)
The result of the conference was a special issue published in the Society and Economy, the academic journal of the Corvinus University of Budapest.