Progressive Business Models

Eleanor O'Higgins is Adjunct Associate Professor at the College of Business at UCD Dublin, Ireland, and an Associate at the London School of Economics, UK. She specializes in business ethics, corporate responsibility and governance, and strategic and public management. She is the author of numerous papers in academic and professional journals, book chapters and case studies. Lszl Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. He is President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium. He also serves as Co-Chair of the Future Earth Finance and Economics Knowledge-Action Network in Montreal, Canada.

Preface.- Part I Introduction.- 1. What is Progressive Business? (Eleanor OHiggins and Laszlo Zsolnai).- Part II Progressive Business Cases.-2. Banking on Values Triodos Bank (Nel Hofstra and Luit Kloosterman).- 3. The Power of Tradition Bres Pharmaceuticals (Andrs csai and Zsolt Boda).- 4. Coffee Making as Art Illycaf (Antonio Tencati).- 5. Staff Inclusion DKV Integralia (Marc Vilanova and Silvia Agull).- 6. Economy for the Common Good Sonnentor (Michael Muller-Camen and Jutta Camen).- 7. The Business of Recycling Armor (Benedicte Faivre-Tavignot).- 8. Clean Energy Lumituuli (Mikko Jalas and Jukka Mkinen).- 9. The Ethos of Partnership John Lewis Partnership (Eleanor OHiggins).- 10. The Danish Model of Corporate Citizenship The Novo Group (Jacob Dahl Rendtorff).- 11. Responsible Hospitality Carlson Rezidor (Knut J. Ims and Kjell Grnhaug).-12. Sustainable Living Unilever (Patrick E. Murphy and Caitlin E. Murphy).- Part III Conclusions.- 13. Future of Business (Eleanor OHiggins and Laszlo Zsolnai).