Deep Ecology, Business Ethics and Personal Responsibility

Knut J. Ims is Professor of Business Ethics at the Department of Strategy and Management at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). He has post-graduate degrees from NHH and a PhD in Economics from Gothenburg University, Sweden. He has been a visiting scholar at a number of universities in different parts of the world and presented his research at numerous international conferences from Hawaii to Bhutan. He has been a member of the Business Ethics Faculty Group of the CEMS – The Global Alliance in Management Education, and fellow of the European SPES Institute. He has taught courses at PhD level at NHH from 1983, and courses at MBA level and CEMS seminars throughout Europe from 2001. He has published a number of books, book chapters and articles in international journals.

• Contents: Johannes Brinkmann and Knut J. Ims: A Conflict Case Approach to Business Ethics – Johannes Brinkmann and Knut J. Ims: Good Intentions Aside: Drafting a Functionalist Look at Codes of Ethics – Knut J. Ims and Ove D. Jakobsen: Cooperation and Competition in the Context of Organic and Mechanic Worldviews: A Theoretical and Case- Based Discussion – Knut J. Ims and Ove D. Jakobsen: Consumerism and Frugality: Contradictory Principles in Economics? – Knut J. Ims and Laszlo Zsolnai: Holistic Problem Solving – Knut J. Ims and Ove D. Jakobsen: Competition or Cooperation? A Required Shift in the Metaphysics of Economics – Knut J. Ims and Laszlo Zsolnai: Self- Realization in Business: Ibsen’s Peer Gynt – Knut J. Ims, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen, and Laszlo Zsolnai: How Economic Incentives Destroy Social, Ecological, and Existential Values: The Case of Executive Compensation – Knut J. Ims, Ove D. Jakobsen, AND Laszlo Zsolnai: Product as Process: Commodities in Mechanic and Organic Ontology – Knut J. Ims and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen: The Future of Business Ethics: A Structured Dialogue Between the Participants – Knut J. Ims and Laszlo Zsolnai: Social Innovation and Social Development in Latin America, Egypt, and India – Knut J. Ims: Land Ethics in the Context of Economics and Commercialization Effects – Knut J. Ims: Caring Entrepreneurship and Ecological Conscience: The Case of Patagonia Inc. – Knut J. Ims: The Computer and Science as Bearers of Culture: From Intuition to Calculation – Knut J. Ims: Mismeetings: An Essay about Money, Urban Life, and the Ethics of Proximity – Knut J. Ims and Laszlo Zsolnai: Shallow Success and Deep Failure – Knut J. Ims: Deep Ecology – Knut J. Ims and Ove D. Jakobsen: Deep Authenticity: An Essential Phenomenon in the Web of Life – Knut J. Ims: Deep Ecology and Personal Responsibility – Knut J. Ims and Ove D. Jakobsen: Peace in an Organic Worldview – Knut J. Ims: Happiness and Human Flourishing – Knut J. Ims and Ove D. Jakobsen: Quality of Life – Knut J. Ims: Quality of Life in a Deep Ecological Perspective: The Need for a Transformation of the Western Mindset? – Knut J. Ims: Nature, Economics and Scream – Knut J. Ims: Deep Ecology and Its Relevance to Gross National Happiness and Bhutan – Knut J. Ims and Judith A. White: Learning Ethics in a Social Context: A Practical Guide Using Experiential Learning Theory – Knut J. Ims: The Consultant- Client Relationship: Personal Autonomy and Development Through Dialogue – Knut J. Ims and Morten Huse: Community in the Classroom: The Philosophy and Practice Behind a Course in Ethical Action – Knut J. Ims, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen, and Maria Prestmo: Dialogue- Based Problem Solving: A Discussion Based on Experience from Teamwork among Ethics Students – Ove D. Jakobsen, Knut J. Ims, and Kjell Grønhaug: Faculty Members’ Attitudes Towards Ethics at Norwegian Business Schools: An Explorative Study – Knut J. Ims: «Take It Personally» – Knut J. Ims and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen: From the Art of Reading to the Art of Leading: An Aristotelian Argument for Why Leaders Should Read Literature – Knut J. Ims and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen: Personal Responsibility and Ethical Action – Knut J. Ims and Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen: Personal Responsibility for the Greater Good – Knut J. Ims, Truls Liland, and Magne Supphellen: The Importance of Calling in Realization of Life Projects: The Case of Maverick and Serial- Entrepreneur Hans Nielsen Hauge with Implications for Business Education.