Practical wisdom for management from the Buddhist traditions

Journal of Management Development

ISSN: 0262-1711

Article publication date: 2 September 2014

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(2014), "Practical wisdom for management from the Buddhist traditions", Journal of Management Development, Vol. 33 No. 8/9. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD.02633haa.003

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited


Practical wisdom for management from the Buddhist traditions

Article Type: Conference programme From: Journal of Management Development, Volume 33, Issue 8/9

Conference programme

Papers in this special issue were presented at the conference held in Bangkok, Thailand: Practical wisdom for management and economics from the Buddhist spiritual and religious traditions, November 15-16, 2012 at Thammasat Business School.

November 15, 2012

09:00-09:30 Welcome addresses: Kulpatra Sirodom, Thammasat Business School, Thailand, Gilbert Lenssen, ABIS – The Academy of Business and Society

09:30-10:00 Keynote: Khunying Jada Wattanasiritham, Independent Director, Siam Commercial Bank Plc., Thailand

10:15-12:00 Paper session 1: Sufficiency as Practical Wisdom

Greed and Wise Action in Economics and Zen Buddhism, Lorenzo Garbo, Department of Economics, University of Redlands, USA

Towards a New Theory of Value? Georg Erber, German Institute for Economic Research, Germany

Buddhist Economics and Today's Consumer Society, Gullinee Mutakalin, Department of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

13:00-14:45 Paper session 2: Buddhism in Business Practice – Action Research Projects

The long Road to Applying Buddhist Wisdom to Management, Laurens van den Muyzenberg, The leaders way

Right Speech as a Basis for Management Training, Geoffrey Bamford, Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies, UK

Action-Research on Thai Farmer Debt Management by Applying a New Agriculture Theory Towards Sufficiency Economy, Wanna Prayukvong, The Network of NGO – Business Partnerships for Sustainable Development, Thailand

15:00-16:45 Paper session 3: East-West Exchange

Buddhist Economic Criticism Based in the Ethics of Self-Formation, Laura Beyer, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany

Buddhist Management Flavored by Western Proverbs, Michel Plaisent, University of Quebec in Montreal, Prosper Bernard and Nirundon Tapachai, University Kasetsart

16:40-17:15 Business Profile Presentation: Nicholas Seaver, Chief Executive Officer of Thanyapura Limited

November 16, 2012

09:00-10:45 Paper session 4: Practical Wisdom for Leadership from the Buddhist Traditions

Mindfulness-Based Leadership, the Next Leadership Paradigm, Tom Clark, The Bradford Clark Group, USA

Adam Smith as Bodhisattva? A Meta Analysis of Global Leadership, Fredric William Swierczek, Thammasat Business School, Thailand

The Bodhisattva as Leadership Model for Sustainable Business Organizations, Sander Tideman, Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands

11:15-13:00 Paper session 5: Practical Wisdom for Economics from the Buddhist Traditions

Adaptable Practical Buddhist Wisdom in Contemporary Economics, Gábor Kovács, Business Ethics Center, Corvinius University of Budapest, Hungary

Buddhism and the New Ecological Economics – Contributions for Sustainable Productive Enterprise, Peter Daniels, Griffith School of Environment, Australia

Challenging the Economic Norm: A Perspective from Buddhist Wisdom, Kate Stirling, Department of Economics, University of Puget Sound, USA

14:00-15:45 Paper session 6: Practical Wisdom for Management from the Buddhist Traditions

Buddhism and Decision Making at Individual, Team and Organizational Levels at Work Priyanka Vallabh and Manish Singhal, XLRI School of Business & Human Resources, Jamshedpur, India

Cultivation of Wisdom in the Theravada Buddhist Tradition: Implications for Contemporary Leadership and Organization, Peter Case, School of Business, James Cook University, Australia

What is the Objective of Profit?: A Buddhist Economics Approach to Collaboration in Business Firms, Wanna Prayukvong, The Network of NGO – Business Partnerships for Sustainable Development, Thailand

16:15-17:15 Closing session: The Role of Buddhist Wisdom in Business

Gilbert Lenssen, The Academy of Business and Society (ABIS)Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Yale University, USA, André Habisch, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany and The Academy of Business and Society (ABIS), Methawut Peerapornvitoon, Thammasat Business School, Thailand

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