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Business for the Common Good: A Christian Vision for the Marketplace
Contributor(s): Wong, Kenman L. (Author), Rae, Scott B. (Author)
ISBN: 0830828168     ISBN-13: 9780830828166
Publisher: IVP Academic
OUR PRICE:   $28.80  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living - Social Issues
- Business & Economics | Business Ethics
Dewey: 261.85
LCCN: 2010040593
Series: Christian Worldview Integration
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.97 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Is business just a way to make money? Or can the marketplace a venue for service to others? Scott B. Rae and Kenman L. Wong seek to explore this and other critical business issues from a uniquely Christian perspective, offering up a vision for work and service that is theologically grounded and practically oriented. Among the specific questions they address along the way are these:

  • What implications does the Christian story have for the vision, mission or sense of purpose that shapes business engagement?
  • What parts of business can be affirmed and practiced as is and what parts need to be rejected or transformed?
  • What challenges exist as attempts are made to live out Christian ideals in a broken world characterized by tight margins, fierce competition and short-term investor pressures?
  • How do Christian values inform specific functional areas of business such as the management of people, marketing and environmental sustainability?

Business can be even more than an environment through which individual Christians grow in Christlikeness. In this book you'll discover how it can also be a means toward serving the common good.

Contributor Bio(s): Wong, Kenman L.: - Kenman L. Wong (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is professor of business ethics at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of Medicine and the Marketplace: The Moral Dimensions of Managed Care.Rae, Scott B.: - Scott B. Rae (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He is the author of Moral Choices: An Introduction to Ethics and (with J. P. Moreland) Body and Soul: Human Nature and the Crisis in Ethics. Together Rae and Wong have edited Beyond Integrity: A Judeo-Christian Approach to Business Ethics.