Servant Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and the Will to Serve (original) (raw)
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Editors:
- Luk Bouckaert
- Leuven, Belgium
- Steven C. van den Heuvel
- Leuven, Belgium
This book provides an intricate, in-depth examination of the 'Will to Serve' concept in business and spirituality
Brings together a rich collection of essays by foremost thinkers in their field
Presents the central discussions of the conference on Servant Leadership organised by the European SPES Institute, the Institute for Leadership and Social Ethics and the Damien Center
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This book brings together a number of important essays on the intersection of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship, examining them through a shared focus on ‘the will to serve’. This combination bears out the insight that inspiring social and economic leaders are able to transform a conflictual human settlement into a collaborative and caring human community. The book seeks to answer the question of whether we can induce from their ‘way of doing things’ a model of civic entrepreneurship and leadership that can inspire people in profit, non-profit and public organizations. It also examines the extent to which the will to serve is compatible with the will to maximize profit or the will to gain economic, political or religious power. Furthermore, it asks how far different spiritual traditions create different models and examples of servant leadership and social entrepreneurship. This book will be of interest to researchers working in the fields of business ethics, business spirituality and corporate social responsibility.
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Keywords
Table of contents (18 chapters)
Philosophical and Spiritual Foundations
Social Entrepreneurship: Serving the Common Good
Servant Leadership in the Context of Business
Editors and Affiliations
Leuven, Belgium
Luk Bouckaert, Steven C. van den Heuvel
About the editors
Luk Bouckaert is Professor Emeritus of Ethics at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He is the founder of the Belgian and European SPES-Forum vzw.
Steven C. van den Heuvel is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, Belgium, as well as an Extraordinary Researcher in the Faculty of Theology at North-West University, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
- Book Title: Servant Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and the Will to Serve
- Book Subtitle: Spiritual Foundations and Business Applications
- Editors: Luk Bouckaert, Steven C. van den Heuvel
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29936-1
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
- eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
- Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29935-4Published: 09 December 2019
- Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-29938-5Published: 08 January 2021
- eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-29936-1Published: 28 November 2019
- Edition Number: 1
- Number of Pages: XXVII, 394
- Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics: Business Ethics, Faith, Spirituality and Business, Corporate Social Responsibility, Organization, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy/Leadership