Forty scholars and practitioners from Europe, North America, and Asia contributed to The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business edited by Luk Bouckaert and Laszlo Zsolnai. The book was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. It summarizes the most important issues, approaches, and models in the field of spirituality in business, economics, and society. It presents a comprehensive, pluralistic view covering all the major religious and spiritual traditions.
The contents of the handbook are as follows:
Introduction
Luk Bouckaert (Catholic University of Leuven) and Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest): Spirituality and Business
Part I. The Nature of Spirituality
Paul De Blot (Nyenrode Business University): Religion and Spirituality
Luk Bouckaert (Catholic University of Leuven): Spirituality and Rationality
Andrew B. Newberg and Daniel A. Monti (Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia): Neuroscience of Spirituality
John Drew (European Business School and Regent’s College London): Transpersonal Psychology
Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest): Moral Agency and Spiritual Intelligence
Veerle Draulans (Tilburg University and Catholic University of Leuven): Gender and Spirituality
Suzan Langenberg (Diversity bvba, Antwerp): Critique as a Notion of Spirituality
Part II. Spiritually Inspired Economics
Robert Allinson (Soka University of America): Aristotle and Economics
Sanjoy Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Management Shillong): Indian Management Philosophy
Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest): Buddhist Economics
Robert Allinson (Soka University of America): Confucianism and Taoism
Henk Oosterling (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Budo Philosophy
Moses L. Pava (Yeshiva University, New York): Jewish Ethical Perspective on Income and Wealth Distribution
Domenec Mele (IESE Business School, Barcelona): Catholic Social Teaching
Jurjen Wiersma (Brussels Faculty for Protestant Theology): Protestant Economic Principles and Practices
Feisal Khan (Hobart and William Smith Colleges): Islamic Economics
Laurie Michaelis (Oxford): Quakers Spirituality and the Economy
Luk Bouckaert (Catholic University of Leuven): Personalism
Eelco van den Dool (Ede Christian University of Applied Sciences): Liberation Theology
Hendrik Opdebeeck (University of Antwerp): Schumacher’s People-Centered Economics
Marjolein Lips-Wiersma (University of Canterbury): Baha’i Perspective on Business and Organization
Michael Bell (Inukshuk Management): Teaching of the Elders
Part III. Socioeconomic Problems in Spiritual Perspective
Carlos Hoevel (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina): Spiritual Meaning of the Economic Crisis
Tim Kasser (Knox College): Materialistic Value Orientation
Stefano Zamagni (University of Bologna): Avarice
Jean-Jacques Rose (EHESS–CNRS, Marseille) and Francois Lepineux (Rennes School of Business): Globalization
Knut Ims (NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen): Deep Ecology
Laurie Michaelis (Oxford): Climate Change and Spirituality
John Adams (Saybrook University, San Francisco): Ecological Sustainability and rganizational Functioning
Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest): Responsibility for Future Generations
David Boyle (New Economics Foundation, London): Authenticity
Luk Bouckaert (Catholic University of Leuven), Hendrik Opdebeeck (University of Antwerp), and Laszlo Zsolnai (Corvinus University of Budapest): Frugality
Stefano Zamagni (University of Bologna): Civil Economy
Part IV. Business Spirituality
Peter Pruzan (Copenhagen Business School): Spiritual-Based Leadership
Gerrit Broekstra and Paul De Blot (Nyenrode Business University): Deep Leadership and Spirit-Driven Business Organizations
Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer (Four World Laboratory for Social and Economic Transformation, Geneva): Transformation Management
Sharda Nandram (Nyenrode Business University) and Margot Esther Borden (Mumbai, India): Mindfulness in Business
Marjolein Lips-Wiersma (University of Canterbury) and Lani Morris (Holistic Development Group): Voicing Meaningfulness at Work
Francois Lepineux (Rennes School of Business) and Jean-Jacques Rose (EHESS–CNRS, Marseille): Multinational Companies and the Common Good
Kenneth E. Goodpaster (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul): Corporate Conscience
Part V. Good Practices and Working Models
Oliver F. Williams (University of Notre Dame): The New Role of Business in Society
T. Dean Maines (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul): Self-Assessment and Improvement Process for Organizations
Judi Neal (University of Arkansas): Edgewalker Organizations
Luigino Bruni (University of Milan–Bicocca) and Tibor Hejj (Proactive Management Consulting Ltd., Budapest): The Economy of Communion
Mike Thompson (China Europe International Business School, Shanghai): Ethical Branding
Zsolt Boda (Corvinus University of Budapest): Fair Trade Movement
Frans de Clerck (Triodos Bank, Belgium): Ethical Banking