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This book explores the vision and practice of corporate spiritual responsibility from multiple religious, philosophical, and practice traditions. It interrogates and strives to widen and deepen the current discourse of corporate social responsibility as well as contemporary conceptions, organizations and practices of business, economy, corporation, and the world. It also explores new visions and practices of leadership and management in corporations and society as well as new visions and practices of economy, self, society, and the world. It proposes Atmic (soul-attuning) Planetary paths of leadership and a New Earth Sastra for business, society and the world. It also challenges us to realize the pathology in our current models and practices of business and society and moves towards paths of corporate social healing and healing of self and society. It brings cases on corporate social and spiritual responsibility from diverse fields such as disability studies, Ayurveda, etc. The book is transdisciplinary and cultivates trans-civilizational dialogues and planetary conversations on rethinking and transforming business, economy, management and the world today.
List of contents
Part 1: The Multiverse of Corporate Spiritual Responsibility.- Chapter 1: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility.- Chapter 2: Corporate Social and Spiritual Responsibility: A Vedic Understanding.- Chapter 3: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Four Sources of Inspiration and A Visual Link Among Them.- Chapter 4: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Towards a New Paradigm for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).- Chapter 5: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Considering the Psychological Wellbeing of the People and Society in India.- Part Two: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Further Cultivation of Creative Visions from Multiple Traditions .- Chapter 6: The Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Enabling Sacrifice, Common Good and Purpose.- Chapter 7: Examination of Conscience and Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Drawing Wisdom and Insights from a 500-Year-Old Spiritual Exercise for Today.- Chapter 8: Corporate Spiritual and Social Responsibility Through Balance of Digitization and Divinization.- Chapter 9: Corporate Social Responsibility Guide by Corporate Spiritual Responsibility.- Chapter 10: Do the Emerging Trends in Indian CSR Hint at Evolution of Karmic way of Corporate Life?.- Part Three: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: New Horizons of Transformative Practice and Thinking.- Chapter 11: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility for the Application of Human Enhancement Technologies.- Chapter 12: Responsibilizing and De-responsibilizing Corporations: Commodification and Depoliticization of Spirituality through Corporate Social and Spiritual Responsibility.- Chapter 13: Corporate Social and Spiritual Responsibility and Disability.- Chapter 14: Does Spiritual Intervention Contribute in Mental Health & Well-being?: A Critical Review.- Chapter 15: Reflections on Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: The Buddha and Tanha.
About the author
Ananta Kumar Giri
is the Founding Honorary Executive Trustee of Vishwaneedam Center of Asian Blossoming and a Former Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.
Subhash Sharma
is a Founding Member of Indus Business Academy, Bangalore and currently its Chief Mentor.
AV Ramana Acharyulu
is a Professor at Indus Business Academy, Bengaluru.
Summary
This book explores the vision and practice of corporate spiritual responsibility from multiple religious, philosophical, and practice traditions. It interrogates and strives to widen and deepen the current discourse of corporate social responsibility as well as contemporary conceptions, organizations and practices of business, economy, corporation, and the world. It also explores new visions and practices of leadership and management in corporations and society as well as new visions and practices of economy, self, society, and the world. It proposes Atmic (soul-attuning) Planetary paths of leadership and a New Earth Sastra for business, society and the world. It also challenges us to realize the pathology in our current models and practices of business and society and moves towards paths of corporate social healing and healing of self and society. It brings cases on corporate social and spiritual responsibility from diverse fields such as disability studies, Ayurveda, etc. The book is transdisciplinary and cultivates trans-civilizational dialogues and planetary conversations on rethinking and transforming business, economy, management and the world today.
