Corporate Spiritual Responsibility

At a time when organizational decision making involves complex moral dilemmas, this volume on Corporate Spiritual Responsibility offers much needed conceptual exposition and practical guidance, ... a must read for every manager and management scholar."

   Paul Shrivastava, Professor, The Pennsylvania State University & Co-President, The Club of Rome

I have read through this pioneering work of research by the editors and the contributions of various researchers, bringing together views of four distinct dimensions of spirituality – putting forward the God Centric Spirituality, Nature Centric Spirituality, Inner-Self Centric Spirituality and Cosmic View of Spirituality. Thereafter, the book continues to unfold another pioneering concept called “HOPE” – Higher Order Purpose of Existence. It is a very simple and heart-touching articulation, making Corporate Spiritual Responsibility one of the easily acceptable and adaptable paradigms of CSR for every kind of enterprise, small, big, and mega-corporations.

Monica Singhania, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi

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.

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.