I have just been reviewing an article on spirituality in management for a management journal. In many ways it was a useful contribution to the growing corpus in this field, but I was struck by the author’s easy commitment to the orthodoxy that spirituality naturally leads to ‘spiritual behaviour,’ which in turn can be measured in order to decide whether or not facilitating spirituality at work makes good sense. Read More
I have just attended a most interesting consultation on ethical finance at St George’s House Windsor, co-run with Ridley Hall in Cambridge. One topic that came up in our discussions was about information. There was a feeling that the money to made from information asymmetries, coupled with concern over anti-competitive behaviour, made financial services as a sector reluctant to co-operate. This was seen to be a stumbling block to any co-operative attempt to agree self-regulatory regimes that would obviate the need for more potentially draconian regulatory intervention. This got me to musing – again – about Nash equilibria. Read More
