Overview
- This book provides an intricate, in-depth examination of the 'Will to Serve' concept in business and spirituality
- Brings together a rich collection of essays by foremost thinkers in their field
- Presents the central discussions of the conference on Servant Leadership organised by the European SPES Institute, the Institute for Leadership and Social Ethics and the Damien Center
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophical and Spiritual Foundations
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Front Matter
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Social Entrepreneurship: Serving the Common Good
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Front Matter
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Servant Leadership in the Context of Business
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Keywords
- Christianity
- religious leadership
- ethics
- business models
- entrepreneurship
- ethical entrepreneurship
- sustainability
- ipseism
- Buddhism
- Simone Weil
- business education
- Anarchist Entrepreneurship
- John Wesley
- business philosophy
- Christian business
- faith, spirituality and business
- corporate social responsibility
About this book
This book brings together a number of important essays on the intersection of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship, examining them through a shared focus on ‘the will to serve’. This combination bears out the insight that inspiring social and economic leaders are able to transform a conflictual human settlement into a collaborative and caring human community. The book seeks to answer the question of whether we can induce from their ‘way of doing things’ a model of civic entrepreneurship and leadership that can inspire people in profit, non-profit and public organizations. It also examines the extent to which the will to serve is compatible with the will to maximize profit or the will to gain economic, political or religious power. Furthermore, it asks how far different spiritual traditions create different models and examples of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship. This book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of business ethics, business spirituality and corporate social responsibility.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Luk Bouckaert is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the founder of the Belgian and European SPES-Forum vzw.
Steven C. van den Heuvel is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium, as well as an Extraordinary Researcher in the Faculty of Theology at North-West University, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Servant Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and the Will to Serve
Book Subtitle: Spiritual Foundations and Business Applications
Editors: Luk Bouckaert, Steven C. van den Heuvel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29936-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29935-4Published: 09 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29938-5Published: 08 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29936-1Published: 28 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 394
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Ethics, Faith, Spirituality and Business, Corporate Social Responsibility, Organization, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy/Leadership