Belief and Organization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Peter Case, Heather Höpfl, Hugo Letiche

   Pages 1-13

3. Belief

   • Alphonso Lingis

   Pages 14-30

4. Philosophy as Activity

   • Hugo Letiche, Jean-Luc Moriceau

   Pages 31-50

5. Buddhist Belief and Living Ethics

   • Peter Case, René Brohm

   Pages 51-68

6. Organizing a Buddhist Way

   • Dian Marie Hosking

   Pages 69-89

7. Islam, Belief System and Organization

   • David Weir

   Pages 90-105

8. Catholicism

   • Heather Höpfl

   Pages 106-121

9. Waging a War against Oneself

   • David Torevell

   Pages 122-143

10. Agency without Agents

    • John Roberts

    Pages 144-162

11. Trading Belief

    • Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley

    Pages 163-184

12. Sustainability and the Spiritual Work Ethic

    • Emma Bell, John Cullen, Scott Taylor

    Pages 185-203

13. Belief, Parrhesia and Practice

    • Hugo Letiche

    Pages 204-227

14. Back Matter

    Pages 229-234

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Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo)capitalist social order. This volume marks an attempt to move the study of belief forward within management and organization studies.

• business
• business ethics
• ethics
• management
• organization
• organizations
• sustainability

• James Cook University, Australia

  Peter Case

• University of Essex, UK

  Heather Höpfl

• Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Netherlands

  Hugo Letiche

EMMA BELL Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at Keele Management School, Keele University, UK RENÉ BROHM Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands JOHN CULLEN Professor in organisational behaviour, leadership, management and business ethics at the School of Business of the National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland DIAN MARIE HOSKING Associate of The Taos Institute ALPHONSO LINGIS Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, USA GEOFF LIGHTFOOT Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Accounting at the University of Leicester School of Management, UK SIMON LILLEY Professor of Information and Organisation and Head of the School of Management at the University of Leicester, UK JEAN-LUC MORICEAU Professor of accounting and research methods at Telecom Business School, France JOHN ROBERTS Professor in the Discipline of Accounting at the University of Sydney, Australia SCOTT TAYLOR Reader in Organisational Behaviour at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, UK DAVID TOREVELL Associate Professor in Christian theology and Co-Director of the Centre for Christian Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK DAVID WEIR Head of the School of Business, Leadership and Enterprise at University Campus Suffolk, UK, and Affiliate Professor at ESC Rennes, France

Policies and ethics