Servant Leadership, Social Entrepreneurship and the Will to Serve : Spiritual Foundations and Business Applications

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Will to Serve: An Anthropological and Spiritual Foundation for Leadership (Patrick Nullens)....Pages 3-27 Reading Exodus 18 and Robert Greenleaf (Heiko Wenzel)....Pages 29-46 Servant Leadership Beyond Servant and Leader: A Buddhist Perspective on the Theory and Practice of Servant Leadership (Ernest C. H. Ng)....Pages 47-68 Ipseistic Ethics Beyond Moralism: Rooting the “Will to Serve” in “The Reverence for Life” (Chris Doude van Troostwijk)....Pages 69-86 Simone Weil and a Critical Will to Serve (Michael J. Thate)....Pages 87-101 The Dark Side of Servant Leadership: Power Abuse via Serving (Volker Kessler)....Pages 103-121 Christianity and Servant Leadership (Peirong Lin)....Pages 123-139 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 Protecting the Weak and Creating Community (Emilio Di Somma)....Pages 143-160 Foundations for Social Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Indian Perspective (Sharda S. Nandram, Puneet K. Bindlish, Harsh Purohit, Ankur Joshi, Priti Hingorani)....Pages 161-186 Workplace Spirituality in Social Entrepreneurship: Motivation for Serving the Common Good (Natasha Gjorevska)....Pages 187-209 Mindful Servant Leadership for B-Corps (Kevin Jackson)....Pages 211-233 The Religious Leader as Social Entrepreneur (Jack Barentsen)....Pages 235-253 Serving the Poor: The Case of the EoC Enterprise ‘Mercurio Net’ (Mara Del Baldo, Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli)....Pages 255-284 Front Matter ....Pages 285-285 Servant Leadership in Market-Oriented Organizations, Does that Make Sense? An Evaluation from an Economic-Organization Theory Perspective (Jakob Willem (Pim) Boven)....Pages 287-308 The Importance of Calling in Realization of Life Projects: The Case of Maverick and Serial-entrepreneur Hans Nielsen Hauge with Implications for Business Education (Knut Ims, Truls Liland, Magne Supphellen)....Pages 309-333 Rethinking Fashion Retail: The Case of MrSale (Gabor Kovacs)....Pages 335-349 Aldous Huxley’s Anarchist Entrepreneurship Based on Spiritual Capital (Gerrit De Vylder)....Pages 351-371 John Wesley: Prophet and Entrepreneur (Clive Murray Norris)....Pages 373-389 Back Matter ....Pages 391-394