What is it about?
The challenge of sustainability in business is framed in this article as a matter of faith development. The research addresses the questions of how individuals holding management ranks in business relate to the other and the natural environment and how distinct individual faith orientations affect sustainability performance.
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Why is it important?
Decades of research into corporate social responsibility and sustainability have fostered a view of business as predominantly managed through cognitive economic thinking. Human emotions and caring abilities have been largely discarded and undervalued. The model developed in this article is unique in its potential to reinstate the role of the emotional aspects found within individual faith as critical antecedents to business decision-making and action-taking.
Perspectives
This article is a humble step forward in my scholarly efforts to promote a distinctively more humanist perspective on the role of business in society. Many prominent scholars and management practitioners have engaged in a similar path before the publication of this work. I hope that this article will constitute yet another thought-provoking resource in the field of sustainability management to clarify the unique set of faith attributes that characterise management contexts and inform future theoretical and empirical research in this domain.
Dr Fabien Martinez
fmartinezbarcelo@gmail.com
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This page is a summary of: On the Role of Faith in Sustainability Management: A Conceptual Model and Research Agenda, Journal of Business Ethics, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3540-4.
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