This edited book frames a new ethos of management that cares for society, future generations and nature whilst also serving the interests of business and the wider community. Employing the practical wisdom of faith traditions, the chapters develop the use of spirituality as a resource for creating business models that take pressing social problems - such as quality of life at work, over-consumption, environmental degradation and climate change - into account. Spanning entrepreneurship, leadership, management education and business models, the chapters in this book aim to develop a spiritually-based caring model of management to face the challenges and reality of the 21st century.

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Ora Setter is a Lecturer at the Social Science Faculty and the Coller Business School, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Dr. Setter was the chairwoman of Psycho-Dharma, a school for implementation of Buddhist psychology, where she teaches courses in Buddhism and management. A senior consultant to many leading companies in Israel, focusing on organizational development, her areas of expertise are change management, power and politics, knowledge management, and building and organizing training programs for organizations.

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He is chairman of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS The Global Alliance in Management Education. He is president of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in London, UK. He has been a guest professor or visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, the University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University, the University of Richmond, Concordia University Montreal, the University of St. Gallen, Bocconi University Milan, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.

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Part 1 Introduction

Ora Setter and Laszlo Zsolnai: Care, and its Relevance for Today's Economy

Part 2 Spiritual and Philosophical Foundations

Imre Ungvári Zrínyi: Authentic Human Relations and the Economy

Luk Bouckaert: Caring for Being and Caring for Other

Kevin Jackson: Getting to the Heart of Compassion in Philosophy and Economic Life

Garry Jacobs: Consciousness Approach to Management and Economics

Part 3 New Management and Economic Models

Yehuda Kahane: New Metrics for a New Economy The B2T by 2020 Project

J.L. Fernández Fernández and Cristina Díaz de la Cruz: Social Catholic Thought and the Economy of Communion as Business Model

Tibor Héjj: Dignity, Love and Servant-Leadership

Pavel Chalupnicek: Social Entrepreneurship, Conscience, and the Common Good

Gabor Kovacs: The Caring Attitude of Christian and Buddhist Entrepreneurs

Knut Ims: Caring Entrepreneurship and Ecological Conscience The Case of Patagonia Inc.

Ora Setter: Spirituality and Caring in Organizations: The Convenant Metaphor

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