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Embracing Spiritual Economics

A thought-provoking article examining the issues involved in reconciling the material (economic) and non-material (spiritual) dimensions of human existence.
Kosmos website, Alfredo Sfeir-Younis, linked 09/10
http://www.kosmosjournal.org/kjo2/library/kosmos-articles/spiritual-economics.shtml

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Are Profitability and Spirituality Polar Opposites?

A press release on "Soul at Work: Spiritual Leadership in Organizations," which proves that integrity, organizational effectiveness, and profitability are natural partners.
Margaret Benefiel, press review on Workplace Spirituality, linked 09/10
http://www.workplacespirituality.info/Profitability%20and%20Spirituality.html

Cost of Fear: How Much Do Limiting Values Cost an Organisation?

Shows how to calculate the impact of potentially limiting values and cultural entropy on the financial performance of an organization.
Phil Clothier, Values Centre website, linked 09/10
http://www.valuescentre.com/docs/CostofFear.pdf

Spirituality in Business

A brief summary showing that spirituality and profitability are not mutually exclusive and giving examples of ways in which this is being expressed.
Corinne McLaughlin, World Goodwill Occasional Paper (April 1999), linked 09/10
http://www.everymanedict.com/e10a_corporate-spirituality.htm

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Cultural Capital: The New Frontier of Competitive Advantage

Explains the concept of cultural capital and why it is important for organizations.
Richard Barrett, Values Centre website, linked 09/10
http://www.valuescentre.com/docs/NewFrontier.pdf

Global Reporting Initiative

The world's most widely used sustainability reporting framework, setting out the principles and indicators that organizations can use to measure and report their economic, environmental, and social performance.
Conscious Business Center website, linked 09/10
http://www.globalreporting.org/AboutGRI/WhatIsGRI/

Research on "Spiritual Capital"

Announcement of the Spiritual Capital Research Program, established to support high-level, impartial scholarship on the contribution of religion--both for good and for ill--to economic and social developments.
Workplace Spirituality website, linked 09/10
http://www.workplacespirituality.info/Research%20on%20Spiritual%20Capital.html

Spirituality as the Fourth Bottom Line

A short article suggesting that, as business executives and economists begin to understand the importance of spirituality in evaluating the performance of business, a debate is needed on indicators that can evaluate this new paradigm in process.
Sohail Inayatullah, New Renaissance, 12 (2), Nov. 2006, linked 09/10
http://www.ru.org/spirituality/spirituality-as-the-fourth-bottom-line.html

Spirituality in the Workplace: Is There a Return on Investment?

A brief article discussing how employees who perceive themselves as more spiritual in organizations are more engaged, energized, productive, creative, and adaptive.
BC Human Resources Management Association website, Barbara Kyle, linked 09/10
http://www.hrvoice.org/story.aspx?&storyid=1528&issueid=686

Triple Bottom Line Reporting in Australia

A guide to Triple Bottom Line (TBL) reporting to help organizations focus on decision-making and reporting that explicitly considers no only their economic, but also their environmental and social, performance.
Environment Australia website, June 2003, linked 09/10
http://www.environment.gov.au/sustainability/industry/publications/indicators/index.html

True Impact

A web-based financial, social, and environmental ROI calculator, available by subscription.
Website, linked 09/10
http://www.true-impact.com/

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Spiritual Techniques for Thriving Amidst Economic Crisis

An article detailing 16 spiritual techniques that leverage the causality of consciousness to help you weather the economic storm.
CVL website, Corinne McLaughlin, 2009, linked 09/10
http://www.visionarylead.org/articles/economic_crisis.htm