Social entrepreneurship has been positioned as a special form of entrepreneurship and is receiving growing attention from scholars and practitioners. It is relevant to all continents and cultures, but the ways it manifests itself in each continent vary. In this chapter we argue that the fundamental questions about what motivates people to start practicing as […]
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This chapter shows that decision-making involves interactions between reason and intuition. It explains how several subtle cues, when integrated, lead to a holistic, coherent understanding of what happens when decision makers act in a context that is not conditioned but creates room for natural stimuli. The emergence of subtle cues influenced by internal enablers can […]
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The Routledge Companion to Management and Workplace Spirituality provides readers with a broad, cutting-edge overview of the discipline of management spirituality and religion (MSR). Marques has gathered leading scholars from around the world who share their insights and research on important topics such as linking spirituality and religion, cultural influences on workplace spirituality, mindfulness, and managing […]
Read MoreOur lack of ability to deal with the current climate of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) is the cause or catalyst for a rise in fanaticism, existential crisis, fraud, greed and unnecessary competition across the globe. In this book, the authors attribute these issues to a lack of Integrativeness in our worldview. They present […]
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This chapter presents the overall picture which emerged from various perspectives on managing VUCA. This holistic and integrative view has been articulated in a way to be able to relate to the three pillars of self management—Swadharma, Swavalamban and Swaraaj . Furthermore, it attempts to build a case for Integrative Intelligence as a way forward to be able to […]
Read More There are several definitions available for intuition in various disciplines such as psychology, philosophy and ancient wisdom literature. Since intuition is an internal process of tracing perceiving and interpreting information, this topic usually remains outside the scope of mainstream entrepreneurship and management scholarly research. However, entrepreneurs and managers use intuition for various purposes in navigation […]
Read More In this book, experts discuss whether volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) represent a challenge or a business opportunity. More intense debates on global climate change, increased turbulence in financial quarters, increased job insecurity and high levels of stress at the workplace are attracting attention in the context of organization behavior and entrepreneurship. Fear and confusion […]
Read More This chapter gives a background to this work and also provides an overview of this book. The VUCA world (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) may have presented challenges for businesses, but it can be seen as opportunities for enterprising and innovating companies, who value interconnectedness and transparency. Companies, who understand that no one individual can […]
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A researcher is the most crucial constituent in any research and re-search under Communities of Practice, specifically for research domain concerning the social aspect of human existence. This chapter presents a collaborative auto-ethnography of researchers’ preparation for undertaking indigenous fundamental research. The chapter has three major sections ‘why researcher preparation?’ followed by ‘how it was […]
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The research question of this chapter is to study the relationship between leadership and Yoga where Yoga is seen as an approach to view the world and a way to enhance virtuous behavior. So far leadership has been studied as style, an attribute, or trait. New models propose it as an activity. Here we propose leadership as […]
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