Global Perspectives on Indian Spirituality and Management: The Legacy of S.K. Chakraborty

This book brings together a collection of articles from eminent scholars and practitioners from India, Europe, the USA, and Australia and investigates the applicability of spiritually inspired business models in Indian and Western contexts. This book is a tribute to the revered Indian management scholar and philosopher Professor S. K. Chakraborty, a pioneer of human values and Indian ethos in management. It explores the potentials and pitfalls of spiritual-based leadership and provides directions for renewing business education to embrace human values and spirituality. The forty contributions in the book are divided into seven sections-introduction; business ethics and management; developing new organizational models and processes; potentials and pitfalls of spirituality-based leadership; leaders and their world; education, spirituality, and society; ways to go-to bring out different aspects of the spirituality in business model endorsed by Chakraborty. The book is a treasure trove for researchers of not only business ethics, but also of leadership and strategy studies, in addition to the organization professionals and the general reader for expert insights on the topic.

Sanjoy Mukherjee is Associate Professor in Sustainability, CSR and Business Ethics at Indian Institue of Management Shillong. Previously he was a Faculty at the Management Centre for Human (MCHV) at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His area of research includes Indian ethos in management, management by human values, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, wisdom leadership, alternate learning, spirituality in management, and management and liberal arts.

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is chairman of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS -The Global Alliance in Management Education. He is president of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in London, UK.