Belief and Organization

by P. Case (Editor), H. Höpfl (Editor), H. Letiche (Editor)

Overview

Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo)capitalist social order. This volume marks an attempt to move the study of belief forward within management and organization studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349329922
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/10/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

EMMA BELL Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at Keele Management School, Keele University, UK RENÉ BROHM Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands JOHN CULLEN Professor in organisational behaviour, leadership, management and business ethics at the School of Business of the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland DIAN MARIE HOSKING Associate of The Taos Institute ALPHONSO LINGIS Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, USA GEOFF LIGHTFOOT Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Accounting at the University of Leicester School of Management, UK SIMON LILLEY Professor of Information and Organisation and Head of the School of Management at the University of Leicester, UK JEAN-LUC MORICEAU Professor of accounting and research methods at Telecom Business School, France JOHN ROBERTS Professor in the Discipline of Accounting at the University of Sydney, Australia SCOTT TAYLOR Reader in Organisational Behaviour at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, UK DAVID TOREVELL Associate Professor in Christian theology and Co-Director of the Centre for Christian Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK DAVID WEIR Head of the School of Business, Leadership and Enterprise at University Campus Suffolk, UK, and Affiliate Professor at ESC Rennes, France

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.Case , H.Höpfl & H.Letiche Belief; A.Lingis Philosophy As Activity; H.Letiche & J.-L.Moriceau Buddhist Belief and Living Ethics: Challenging Business Ethics; P.Case & R.Brohm Organising a Buddhist Way; D.M.Hosking Islam, Belief System and Organization; D.Weir Catholicism: Incarnation and Remembrance of the Body; H.Höpfl Waging A War Against Oneself: Busy-ness, Contemplation and the Mystery of Being; D.Torevell Agency Without Agents: Exploring the Relationship Between Identity and Ethics; J.Roberts Trading Belief: Moments of Exchange; G.Lightfoot & S.Lilley Sustainability and the Spiritual Work Ethic; E.Bell , J.Cullen & S.Taylor Belief, Parrhesia and Practice; H.Letiche