This book highlights the relevance of the grand traditions of the humanities as an untapped resource for business-world problems. In a time where the humanities are viewed as in decline or in threat of collapse altogether, this book enacts and extends the best of the humanities toward prevailing challenges within the complex realities of our current cultural moment. The book presents how the humanities can contribute to humanizing business and management. It explores and discusses various ways to integrate the views and approaches of the humanities in business and management research, practice, and education responding to the unprecedented challenges of the Anthropocene. The relations between humanities and social sciences is also discussed, as models and theories of business and management are based on insights of social sciences. The book is an outcome of the “Humanities for Business” project of Princeton University Faith and Work Initiative, the European SPES Institute, Leuven, and the Business Ethics Center of Corvinus University of Budapest. It is of great value to researchers, students, policy makers and research institutions interested in using humanities for renewing and humanizing business and management.
Author Biography:
Michael J. Thate, Ph.D. (Durham University); M.S.L. (Northwestern Pritzker’s School of Law), is a Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University in the Faith and Work Initiative, The Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His background is a swirl of history, religious studies, ethical philosophy, design, geo-spatial intelligence, and law. He is the author of two monographs: “Remembrance of Things Past?” (Mohr Siebeck 2013) and “The Godman and the Sea” (UPenn Press, 2019). Michael has edited four other volumes and written several articles ranging from suicide, imaginaries of participation, labor, the new space economy, time and money, A.I. policy, etc., which attempt to track and compare the assemblages of ethical questions. He also has worked for ten+ years in corporate consulting, serving industry leaders in design, communications, pharma, aerospace, fin-tech, and real-estate tech.
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Laszlo Zsolnai is Professor and Director of the Business Ethics Center at the Corvinus University of Budapest. He is Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and President of the European SPES Institute in Leuven, Belgium. His latest publications include “Responsible Research for Better Business” (Palgrave, 2020) and “Words, Objects and Events in Economics” (Springer, 2021).
