• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Spiritual leadership in the entrepreneurial business : a multifaith study
  • Contributor: Fernando, Mario [Author]
  • Corporation: Edward Elgar Publishing
  • imprint: Cheltenham; Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar, c2007
  • Published in: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 165 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.4337/9781847208613
  • ISBN: 9781847208613
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  • Keywords: Führungsstil ; Entrepreneurship ; Arbeitspsychologie ; Weltanschauung ; Religion ; Sri Lanka ; Business Religious aspects ; Leadership Religious aspects ; Religion in the workplace ; Wert ; Management ; Unternehmensethik ; Electronic books
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-158) and index
  • Description: Introduction -- Why spiritual leadership? -- The growing recognition of the spiritual dimension in emerging leadership theory -- A need for an interfaith and cross-cultural perspective -- The research context -- The participating entrepreneurs -- Leading spiritually -- Spiritual leadership in action -- Cultural and spiritual contingencies of spiritual leadership -- Preparing for spiritual leadership.

    Although interest in workplace spirituality continues to soar, the literature and empirical research on non-Western, non-Christian spirituality in entrepreneurship and leadership is almost non-existent. Mario Fernando's unique study fills the gap in the literature, exploring cross-cultural and religious distinctions of the contemporary meaning and enactment of spirituality in organizations