Paired Courses: Using Liberal Arts to Improve Business EducationSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 231-249 - 2020
Eric Litton, Jim Wacker
This paper summarizes paired courses, a technique that is being used to
incorporate the benefits of liberal arts into the business curriculum. This
technique pairs a required business course with a liberal arts course that
students take concurrently during a semester. The courses have overlapping
themes and activities to build specific competencies that are desired by
organizations, such as commun... hiện toàn bộ
Leveraging Spirituality and Religion in European For-profit-organizations: a Systematic ReviewSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 23-53 - 2022
Lydia Maidl, Ann-Kathrin Seemann, Eckhard Frick, Harald Gündel, Piret Paal
This systematic review synthesises the available evidence regarding the
European understanding of workplace spirituality (definitions), the importance
of spirituality and religion (evidence) as well as spiritual leadership (meaning
and practice) in for-profitorganizations. The search for eligible studies was
conducted in OPAC Plus, SCOPUS, Science Direct, JSTOR, EBSCO, and Google Scholar
from 2007... hiện toàn bộ
Conceptions of the Firm and Corporate AllegiancesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 8 - Trang 201-216 - 2023
Miguel Alzola
This paper aims to integrate recent research on collective agency, corporate
moral personhood, and corporate citizenship to answer the question of how
corporations and corporate officers should respond to greater social
expectations about the role of business in society. The central thesis advanced
in this paper is twofold. First, the right answers to questions about corporate
purpose and social r... hiện toàn bộ
Broadening the Frame around Sustainability with Holistic Language: Mandela and InvictusSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 3 - Trang 233-251 - 2018
Poonam Arora, Gwendolyn A. Tedeschi, Janet L. Rovenpor
We argue for the need for a new language for business – one that is capable of
changing the current business decision-making frame of wins and losses to a
frame of community and social learning. This paper outlines a classroom exercise
about Nelson Mandela’s leadership, involving movies, case studies and poetry,
and shows how the more holistic approach helps shift student views of the triple
botto... hiện toàn bộ
Embedding Humanizing Cultures in Organizations through ‘Institutional’ Leadership: the Role of HRMSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 59-83 - 2020
Massimiliano Monaci
Building on dissatisfaction with current approaches that entail a superficial
conception of the firm’s moral agency, this article has two broad theoretical
underpinnings. First, it refers to the Catholic Social Thought’s view of the
enterprise as a community of work, which leads to place stress on the
possibility of creating ‘organizational humanizing cultures’ that revolve around
the principles o... hiện toàn bộ
Dignity and the Process of Social Innovation: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship and Transformative Services for Humanistic ManagementSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 4 - Trang 125-153 - 2019
Michael Pirson, Mario Vázquez-Maguirre, Canan Corus, Erica Steckler, Andrew Wicks
In this paper we advance inquiry into human dignity in relation to the theory
and practice of social entrepreneurship and innovation in a two-fold manner.
First, we explore how concepts from the literatures of human dignity and
humanistic management can inform and enrich social entrepreneurship and
innovation. Second, we examine case studies of social entrepreneurship and
innovation to refine how ... hiện toàn bộ
Self-Sustaining Practices of Successful Social Change Agents: A Retreats Framework for Supporting Transformational ChangeSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 171-198 - 2017
Erica L. Steckler, Sandra Waddock
We advance a framework of three types of “retreats” – reflective, relational,
and inspirational – that social change agents can use to sustain themselves
through challenges inherent in their work. Retreats are defined as intentionally
crafted spaces that provide opportunities for reflective practices, relational
presence, and inspirational resources. The retreats framework is based on the
experien... hiện toàn bộ