This book explores the vision and practice of corporate spiritual responsibility from multiple religious, philosophical, and practice traditions. It interrogates and strives to widen and deepen the current discourse of corporate social responsibility as well as contemporary conceptions, organizations and practices of business, economy, corporation, and the world. It also explores new visions and practices of leadership and management in corporations and society as well as new visions and practices of economy, self, society, and the world. It proposes Atmic (soulful) Planetary paths of leadership and a New Earth Sastra for business, society and the world. It also challenges us to realize the pathology in our current models and practices of business and society and moves towards paths of corporate social healing and healing of self and society. It brings cases on corporate social and spiritual responsibility from diverse fields such as disability studies, Ayurveda, etc. The book is transdisciplinary and cultivates trans-civilizational dialogues and planetary conversations on rethinking and transforming business, economy, management and the world today.
Part 1: The Multiverse of Corporate Spiritual Responsibility.
Chapter
1: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility.
Chapter 2: Corporate Social and
Spiritual Responsibility: A Vedic Understanding.
Chapter 3: Corporate
Spiritual Responsibility: Four Sources of Inspiration and A Visual Link Among
Them.
Chapter 4: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Towards a New Paradigm
for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Chapter 5: Corporate Spiritual
Responsibility: Considering the Psychological Wellbeing of the People and
Society in India.- Part Two: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Further
Cultivation of Creative Visions from Multiple Traditions .
Chapter 6: The
Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: Enabling Sacrifice, Common Good and
Purpose.
Chapter 7: Examination of Conscience and Corporate Spiritual
Responsibility: Drawing Wisdom and Insights from a 500-Year-Old Spiritual
Exercise for Today.
Chapter 8: Corporate Spiritual and Social Responsibility
Through Balance of Digitization and Divinization.
Chapter 9: Corporate
Social Responsibility Guide by Corporate Spiritual Responsibility.
Chapter
10: Do the Emerging Trends in Indian CSR Hint at Evolution of Karmic way of
Corporate Life?.- Part Three: Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: New
Horizons of Transformative Practice and Thinking.
Chapter 11: Corporate
Spiritual Responsibility for the Application of Human Enhancement
Technologies.
Chapter 12: Responsibilizing and De-responsibilizing
Corporations: Commodification and Depoliticization of Spirituality through
Corporate Social and Spiritual Responsibility.
Chapter 13: Corporate Social
and Spiritual Responsibility and Disability.
Chapter 14: Does Spiritual
Intervention Contribute in Mental Health & Well-being?: A Critical Review.-
Chapter 15: Reflections on Corporate Spiritual Responsibility: The Buddha and
Tanha.
Ananta Kumar Giri is the Founding Honorary Executive Trustee of Vishwaneedam Center of Asian Blossoming and a Former Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.
Subhash Sharma is a Founding Member of Indus Business Academy, Bangalore and currently its Chief Mentor.
AV Ramana Acharyulu is a Professor at Indus Business Academy, Bengaluru.
