Spirituality and Ethics in Management

The book - which was originally published by Kluwer in 2004 - is a collection of scholarly papers focusing on the role of spirituality and ethics in renewing the contemporary management praxis. The basic argument is that a more inclusive, holistic and pea

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Issues in Business Ethics VOLUME 19

Series Editors: Wim Dubbink, CMO, Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Mollie Painter-Morland, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, USA Consulting Editor: Pat Werhane, Director, Institute for Business and Professional Ethics, DePaul University, USA Former Series Editors: Brian Harvey, Henk van Luijk† , Pat Werhane Editorial Board: Georges Enderle, University of Notre Dame, USA William C. Frederick, University of Pittsburg, USA Campbell Jones, University of Leicester, United Kingdom Daryl Koehn, University of St. Thomas, USA Andreas Scherer, University of Zurich, Switzerland Horst Steinmann, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Hiro Umezu, Keio University, Japan Lu Xiaohe, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, P.R. China

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6077

Spirituality and Ethics in Management edited by

LASZLO ZSOLNAI Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Second Edition

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Editor Laszlo Zsolnai Corvinus University of Budapest Business Ethics Center F˝ovámtér 8 1093 Budapest Hungary [email protected]

ISSN 0925-6733 ISBN 978-94-007-1152-5 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1153-2 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1153-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925258 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2003, 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface to the Second Edition

Since the first publication of our “Spirituality and Ethics in Management” business spirituality became increasingly visible as the subject of intellectual inquiry in many places throughout the world. Leading academic journals including the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Education, Journal of Organizational Change Management regularly publish papers on diverse aspects of spirituality in management. Since its establishment in 2004 the Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion has published more than 100 papers related to the relevance and relationship of spirituality and religion in management and organizational life. As an outcome of the publication of our “Spirituality and Ethics in Management” book the European SPES Forum was founded in 2005 in Leuven, Belgium. (SPES refers to “Spirituality in Economics and Social Life” but it is also the Latin word for Hope, the virtue that sustains our belief in a better future.) Founding members of the European SPES Forum include several authors of this book (Luk Bouckaert, Mike Thompson, Josep M. Lozano and me). The mission of the European SPES Forum is to ope