Post-Materialist Business

Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Laszlo is also president of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium and serves as chairman of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS  - The Global Alliance in Management Education.

• Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables 1. The Fallacy of Materialistic Management 1.1. Malfunctioning Business 1.2. The Flaws of Rationality 1.3. Problems with the Profit-principle 2. The Promise of Spiritual-based Management 2.1. Spiritually and Business 2.2. Human Reason in Economic Action 2.3. The Laws of Economizing 3. Post-materialistic Business Models 3.1. Illy Café 3.2. Focolare Enterprises 3.3. Slow Food 3.4. Triodos Bank 3.5. Community-supported Agriculture 3.6. Fair Trade 3.7. Seventh Generations 3.8. SEKEM 3.9. Graeman Bank 3.10. Organic India 3.11. Aravind Eye Care 3.12. Greyston Bakery 3.13. Discussion of the Business Models 4. ConclusionReferences