Handbook of Spirituality and Business

Co-founders of the European SPES Forum, Luk Bouckaert and Laszlo Zsolnai develop a comprehensive, encyclopedic "Handbook of Spirituality and Business" for Palgrave Macmillan to be published in 2011. The handbook aims to present the multifaceted  impacts and potentials of spirituality and religion in economics and business.

Contributors include Paul De Blot, University of Neyenrode), Andrew Newberg, (University of Pennsylvania) John Drew, (European Business School, London), Jerry Biberman (University of Scranton), Robert Allinson (The Soka University of America), Moses Pava (Jeshiva University), Domenec Mele (IESE Business School, Barcelona), Marjolein Lips-Wiersma (University of Canterbury), Tim Kasser (Knox College), Stefano Zamagni (University of Bologna), Peter Pruzan (Copenhagen Business School), Ronald Lessem (University of Buckingham), Kenneth E. Goodpaster (University of St. Thomas), Luigino Bruni (University of Milan - Bicocca), and Frans de Clerck (Triodos Bank).

Major topics of the Handbook of Spirituality and Business are as follows: 

1 The Nature of Spirituality

Religion and spirituality in doing business, Rationality and spirituality, Neuroscience of spirituality, Transpersonal psychology, Attachment, spirituality and health, Moral agency and spiritual intelligence, Levels of organizational spirituality

2 Spiritually Inspired Economics

Aristotle and economics, Indian management philosophy, Confucianism and taoism, Buddhist economics, The Jewish economic man, Christian economic thinking, Islamic economics, Quakers spirituality, Personalism, Schumaher's people centered economics, Liberation theology, Bahai perspective on business

3 Socio-Economic Problems in Spiritual Perspective

Spiritual meaning of economic crisis, Materialistic value-orientation, Avarice and positional competition, Globalization, Business in society, Deep ecology, Climate change, Ecological sustainability, Responsibility for future generations, Frugality, Authenticity, Civil economy

4 Business Spirituality

Spiritually-based leadership, Spirit-driven business organizations, Transformation management, Mindfullnes in business, Budo philosophy, Spirituality at the workplace

5 Good Practices and Working Models

Multinational companies and the common good, Corporate conscience, Self-assessment and improvement process for organizations, The economy of communion, Critique in stakeholder management, Ethical branding, The fair trade movement, Ethical banking, Cooperative entrepreneurship, Community economy