László Zsolnai 
Post-Materialist Business 
Spiritual Value-Orientation in Renewing Management

Post-Materialist Business presents a spiritual-based approach to business and management. It uses pluralistic view of spirituality and provides a number of inspiring cases of alternative organizations which go beyond the materialistic mindset of business and serve the common good of society, nature, and future generations.

Daftar Isi

Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables 1. The Fallacy of Materialistic Management 1.1. Malfunctioning Business 1.2. The Flaws of Rationality 1.3. Problems with the Profit-principle 2. The Promise of Spiritual-based Management 2.1. Spiritually and Business 2.2. Human Reason in Economic Action 2.3. The Laws of Economizing 3. Post-materialistic Business Models 3.1. Illy Café 3.2. Focolare Enterprises 3.3. Slow Food 3.4. Triodos Bank 3.5. Community-supported Agriculture 3.6. Fair Trade 3.7. Seventh Generations 3.8. SEKEM 3.9. Graeman Bank 3.10. Organic India 3.11. Aravind Eye Care 3.12. Greyston Bakery 3.13. Discussion of the Business Models 4. Conclusion References

Tentang Penulis

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Laszlo is also president of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium and serves as chairman of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS  – The Global Alliance in Management Education.