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Guest editorial Nitha Palakshappa and Madhumita Chatterji Exploring spirituality and social responsibility Introduction Globalization and technological advancement have created abundant material wealth in the Nitha Palakshappa is name of making human life more comfortable. Unfortunately, this trajectory has also created Senior Lecturer in a distribution of wealth that has been extremely skewed, favoring a few. Such discriminatory Marketing at School of distribution has been justified by the economic man as “survival of the fittest”, without actually Communication, Journalism providing a holistic definition of fitness. Consequently, there have been increased and Marketing, Massey discussions about justice, fairness, empathy, altruism and related virtues of human existence University, Auckland, New Zealand. among all sections of society. These have naturally spilled over into the management Madhumita Chatterji is literature questioning unbridled profiteering and reinforcing the idea of social responsibility of Director of Strategy and business. Debate among academics and management executives have fueled various Academic Advancement at definitions of a more humane, ethical and transparent mode of conducting business (van Acharya Bangalore B Marrewijk, 2003). Keeping this in view, we believed that a special issue evaluating spirituality School, Bangalore, India. and social responsibility would help to open up new vistas of understanding social responsibility. Spirituality http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Social Responsibility Journal Emerald Publishing

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
1747-1117
DOI
10.1108/SRJ-04-2018-0087
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Abstract

Nitha Palakshappa and Madhumita Chatterji Exploring spirituality and social responsibility Introduction Globalization and technological advancement have created abundant material wealth in the Nitha Palakshappa is name of making human life more comfortable. Unfortunately, this trajectory has also created Senior Lecturer in a distribution of wealth that has been extremely skewed, favoring a few. Such discriminatory Marketing at School of distribution has been justified by the economic man as “survival of the fittest”, without actually Communication, Journalism providing a holistic definition of fitness. Consequently, there have been increased and Marketing, Massey discussions about justice, fairness, empathy, altruism and related virtues of human existence University, Auckland, New Zealand. among all sections of society. These have naturally spilled over into the management Madhumita Chatterji is literature questioning unbridled profiteering and reinforcing the idea of social responsibility of Director of Strategy and business. Debate among academics and management executives have fueled various Academic Advancement at definitions of a more humane, ethical and transparent mode of conducting business (van Acharya Bangalore B Marrewijk, 2003). Keeping this in view, we believed that a special issue evaluating spirituality School, Bangalore, India. and social responsibility would help to open up new vistas of understanding social responsibility. Spirituality

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Social Responsibility JournalEmerald Publishing

Published: Jun 4, 2018

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