The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management

This book discloses the spiritual dimension in business ethics and sustainability management. Spirituality is understood as a multiform search for meaning which connects people with all living beings and God or Ultimate Reality. In this sense, spiritualit

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The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management

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Editor László Zsolnai Corvinus University of Budapest Hungary

ISBN 978-3-319-11676-1    ISBN 978-3-319-11677-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-11677-8 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014956383 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

This volume introduces the dimension of spirituality into business ethics and sustainability management. It presents selected papers from the international “Spirituality and Sustainability: A New Path for Entrepreneurship” conference held in September 21–23, 2012 in Visegrad, Hungary. The conference was organized by the Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest in cooperation with the European SPES Forum and ERENET—the Entrepreneurship Research and Education Network of Central European Universities. The volume presents and summarizes new perspectives and findings about sustainability-related spirituality from a social and economic perspective. It reports on innovative practices and policy reform and discusses spiritual-based leadership for sustainability management. The main function of the vol