Spirituality and Corporate Social Responsibility: Interpenetrating Worlds

Bubna-Litic (strategic management, U. of Technology, Sydney, Australia) brings together 10 chapters by scholars who consider the relationship between spirituality and corporate social responsibility, which have previously been treated as separate spheres. They examine Christianity, process theology, Hinduism, contemporary Buddhism, deep ecology, humanism, feminism, and post-modern and post-Romantic spirituality and intersections with foreign policy, the social conditions that make private enterprise possible, technology and the Enlightenment, consumerism and fulfillment, collective institutions, the firm, social interactions, management education, standardization, and other aspects. The scholars work in strategic management, business ethics, corporate responsibility, behavioral science, religion and ethics, and other fields, in Australia, Europe, India, and North America. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

David Bubna-Litic is an innovative thinker with degrees in Psychology and Commerce and Social Ecology. A Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at the University of Technology, Sydney, he teaches in the area of Sustainable Management, Organisation Theory, and Strategy. David embodies the transdisciplinary nature of the emerging new economics paradigm. An innovative educator he was the original designer of the award winning Australian Business Week program. His doctoral dissertation reformulates Buddhist Economics, drawing on postmodern thinking to develop a theory of Appreciative Economics. He is the author of many book chapters and journal articles that explore new ways of thinking about Buddhism, management and strategy and has presented numerous conference papers in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. David's research interests are transdisciplinary incorporating East-Asian thinking to form new understandings relevant to strategy, organization theory, economics and sustainability.