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Business & Religion


en Hardback – 31 aug 2005
Since the late 1960s American culture has been involved in a struggle to articulate an effective business ethics. The scandals of Enron and WorldCom constitute egregious examples of the absence or deficiency of ethical decision-making in matters of commerce. The purpose of this volume is to inaugurate a dialogue on the common elements of all three Abrahamic traditions -- Christianity, Islam, and Judaism -- that touch on ethical issues in business. With more than 40 scholars, religious and business leaders joining the debate, this anthology is the beginning of a reconstruction of the understanding of the relationship between religion and commerce. The following questions are addressed: Is a purely secular business ethics irremediably deficient? Does a substantive business ethic require a religious and spiritual framework? To what extent does current business practice reflect a spiritual dimension? What are the various religious traditions' perspectives on the ethics of commerce? Can the various religious traditions generate a non-adversarial, consistent, and coherent business ethic? Is there a role for religion and spirituality in a global and post-modern business world? READERSHIP: Business ethicists, business leaders, religious leaders, theologians, moral philosophers, political scientists, and readers with an interest in organisations and culture.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780976404101
ISBN-10: 0976404109
Pagini: 442
Dimensiuni: 160 x 235 mm
Greutate: 1 kg
Editura: Knowledge Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

INTRODUCTION. PART I -- ORIGINS AND NATURE OF THE CLASH: Can Commerce Inspire?; The Virtues of a Commercial Republic; Ships Passing in the Night -- The Conceptual Disconnects Between American Christianity and Capitalism; 'Disconnected at the Roots' -- How Gaps in Catholic Social Doctrine Impede Dialogue and Action on Economic Justice; The Market's Benevolent Tendencies; The Jews and Capitalism -- A Love-Hate Relationship; Doing 'Secular Theology' -- Business Ethics in Economic and Environmental Religion; Why is There a Conflict Between Business and Religion? A Historical Perspective. PART II -- REGAINING HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: The Metaphysical Foundations of the Ethics of Commerce; The Deutronomic Double Standard -- Human Nature and the Nature of Markets; What Does America Owe to Florence?; Property in Roman Religion and Early Christian Fathers; Perestroika in Christendom -- The Scholastics Develop a Commerce-Friendly Moral Code; The Concern of the Church and the Unconcern of the Free Market; The 'Conflict' Between Business and Religion -- Where Does It Come From?; Capitalism Beyond the 'End of History'. PART III -- THREE BRIDGES: An Explanation for Jewish Business Success; The Virtue of Commerce in the Catholic Tradition; Islam, Commerce, and Business Ethics. PART IV -- APPLICATIONS -- A CHRISTIAN (CATHOLIC) BUSINESS ETHICS: Can Theology Help Us in Applied Ethics?; The Sources and Spiritual Basis of Catholic Business Ethics; Calling, Character, Community -- Spirituality for Business People; 'Mankind was my Business' -- An Examination of a Christian Business Ethic and Its Applications to Various Ethical Challenges; A Corporate Governance; Corporate Corruption -- How the Theories of Reinhold Niebuhr and the Ethical Practices of Joseph Badaracco May Help Understand and Limit Corporate Corruption; Corporate Social Responsibility -- A Traditional Catholic Perspective; Natural Law and the Fiduciary Duties of Business Managers; The Common Good of the Firm as the Fiduciary Duty of the Manager; Subsidiarity as Business Model; The Hindu Executive and His Dharma. PART V -- GLOBALIZATION: Spirituality and Entrepreneurship; Business, Religious Spirituality and the East European Experience; American Free Enterprise as an Enterprise in Freedom Abroad; Islam and Capitalism -- A Non-Rodinsonian Approach; The Role of Hinduism in Global India and Her Business Ethics; The African Traditional Religion's Business Ethics -- A Paradigm for Spirituality in the Global Business Ethical Standard; Faith-Correlated Responses to Rural Assistance in a Globalizing Brazil; The Worldly Failures of Liberation Theology; Globalization -- Insights from Catholic Social Teaching. CONCLUSION: The Archbishop of Canterbury -- On the Facts and Values of Religion and Globalization. INDICES.

Recenzii

"It is a welcome contribution to a growing body of scholarship that seeks to appreciate more fully the connection between our relationship with God and our work in the market..." -- Fr Robert A Sirico, President, The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. "The writers do not deny the tensions between faith and commerce, but seek to show they are exactly that: tensions, rather than irreconcilable contradictions. They pave a path to a genuine business ethics..." -- Alexei M Marcoux, Graduate School of Business, Loyola University, Chicago.