Belief and Organization [Hardcover]

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.Notes on Contributors Introduction; P.Case , H.H?pfl  & H.Letiche Belief; A.Lingis Philosophy As Activity; H.Letiche & J.-L.Moriceau Buddhist Belief and Living Ethics: Challenging Business Ethics; P.Case  & R.Brohm Organising a Buddhist Way; D.M.Hosking Islam, Belief System and Organization; D.Weir Catholicism: Incarnation and Remembrance of the Body; H.H?pfl Waging A War Against Oneself: Busy-ness, Contemplation and the Mystery of Being; D.Torevell Agency Without Agents: Exploring the Relationship Between Identity and Ethics; J.Roberts Trading Belief: Moments of Exchange; G.Lightfoot  & S.Lilley Sustainability and the Spiritual Work Ethic; E.Bell , J.Cullen  & S.Taylor Belief, Parrhesia and Practice; H.LeticheEMMA BELL Professor of Management and Organisation Studies at Keele Management School, Keele University, UKREN? BROHM Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the NetherlandsJOHN CULLEN Professor in organisational behaviour, leadership, management and business ethics at the School of Business of the National University of Ireland Maynooth, IrelandDIAN MARIE HOSKING Associate of The Taos InstituteALPHONSO LINGIS Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, USAGEOFF LIGHTFOOT Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Accounting at the University of Leicester School of Management, UKSIMON LILLEY Professor of Information and Organisation and Head of the School of Management at the University of Leicester, UKJEAN-LUC MORICEAU Professor of accounting and research methods at Telecom Business School, FranceJOHN ROBERTS Professor in the Discipll,