In 2010 the book “Heroes and Anti-Heroes. European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership” edited by Rita Ghesquiere and Knut Ims was published by Garant in Antwerp.
The authors share the idea that narratives offer their readers an alternative fictional world. In doing this they hold up a mirror that confronts the reader with otherness that questions their self-evident norms and values but also their daily practices. Both heroes and antiheroes contribute to this process of reflection. The confrontation with literary texts stimulates the intellectual, the emotional, and the social consciousness. The firm belief that divergent (cultural) systems i.e., business ethics and literature can enrich each other is at the core of this project.
he book contains the following papers:
Luk Bouckaert and Rita Ghesquiere (Catholic University of Leuven): Faust and the Magic of Entrepreneurship
Ingrid Molderez and Eric Lefebvre (HUB–European University College): The Horizon’s Embrace: A Faustian Perspective on Limits
Daniel Deak (Corvinus University of Budapest): Don Carlos versus Marquis of Posa: Beyond the Mere Instrument of Rationality
Gerrit De Vylder (Catholic University of Leuven): Economic Leadership in the 18th Century Britain: Swift’s Orientalism versus Defoe’s Pragmatism
Per Ariansen (University of Oslo): “It Is an Island!”: Prospects for Life in Pristine Beginnings
Yvon Pesqueux (CNAM Paris): Cyrano de Bergerac: An ‘Organizational’ Reading
Tom Eide (Diakonhjemmet University College, Oslo): Ibsen, Leadership and Morality. On Henrik Ibsen’s The Pretenders
Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest) and Knut Ims (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen): Self-realization in Business: Ibsen’s Peer Gynt
Carlos Hoevel (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina): Mann’s ‘Buddenbrooks’, Adorno’s and Horkheimer’s Odysseus and the Tragedy of Business Leadership
Sanjoy Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Management Shillong): New Light from Planets Afar: Leadership Journey with The Little Prince
Johan Bouwer (Alba University, The Netherlands): The Little Prince: Integrating Friendship and Existential Wisdom in Leadership Theory
Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen): The Stranger: Moral Blindness Incarnate?
Sunniva Whittaker (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen): Knowledge, Literature and Organization Management Science
Hendrik Opdebeeck (University of Antwerp): Orpheus: The Determining Role of Technology in Leadership
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