The book “The Value Orientations of Buddhist and Christian Entrepreneurs. A Comparative Perspective on Spirituality and Business Ethics” by Gábor Kovács (Palgrave–Macmillan, 2020) analyses the value orientations of Buddhist and Christian entrepreneurs and how these values impact business.
The book reviews and analyzes the concepts of Buddhist economics and the social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church. The value orientations of Buddhist and Christian entrepreneurs are described by core values that correspond to the ontological conception, the procedural dimension, and the “other directedness” of a spiritual value commitment in business.
The book includes the reflections of Buddhist and Christian entrepreneurs about business spirituality, profit, the temporal perspectives of business, and stakeholder management. The cases presented in the book testify that a spiritual value orientation can contribute to creating genuine ethical commitment. The findings and the examples can encourage business scholars and practitioners to stop considering ethics as an instrument of making profit and serve as inspiration for integrating spirituality into business in a profound way.