Wisdom-Based Business
Applying Biblical Principles and Evidence-Based Research for a Purposeful and Profitable Business
- Work, Money & Leadership
- Publisher: Zondervan Academic (Zondervan)
- Published: 2021
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Publisher's Description
Make Your Business Purposeful and Profitable At its best, business is both purposeful and profitable, dynamic and gainful, commercial and rewarding. Far from being opposites, good business and good behavior go hand-in-hand, and biblical principles can align with best practices. In Wisdom-Based Business, marketing and supply-chain professor Hannah J. Stolze draws principles from the Bible's wisdom literature and from evidence-based research to create a framework for business that is oriented toward excellence and sustainability. This book addresses import issues such as: The virtue of profit Servant leadership Wisdom-based values, such as long-term over short-term, stakeholders, and quality Beneficial outcomes of wisdom-based business, including reputation and comparative advantage The ultimate outcome of eternal impact Intended for business students and working professionals alike, Wisdom-Based Business demonstrates how to pursue profitability to the honor and glory of God. Unique among Christian books on business, it helps readers make the right decisions in business by presenting: Biblical Principles. Drawing upon the Bible's wisdom literature, each topic addressed is undergirded by insights from Scripture. Evidence-Based Research. Recommendations are thoroughly grounded in the best and latest research in the field. Case Studies: Each chapter demonstrates how the principles can be lived out in the real world, amid the inevitable challenges and competition all business confronts. Any Christian who works in the marketplace or is training to work in the marketplace will benefit from Wisdom-Based Business' practical guidance on how to reflect Christian values in their corporate tasks and strategies--and on how those values can be not hindrances but keys to success.
Endorsements (3)
“In Wisdom-Based Business, Stolze brilliantly connects winning business practices to biblical truths. She leverages academic research and thoughtfully curated business cases to prove that business leaders can simultaneously pursue—and achieve—both profit and purpose. A must-read for all business leaders who strive to honor God in their calling.”
“follow the author’s intriguing story of discovery, Wisdom-Based Business reveals to the reader a business model grounded in evidence-based business research yet revealed clearly in an ancient Old Testament poem. This is the book that, if followed, has the potential of influencing and guiding Christians in business for decades to come.”
“In Wisdom-Based Business, Hannah Stolze takes the integration of Christian faith and business to an unprecedented level of depth and precision. With impeccable exegetical rigor, she mines the wealth of practical business wisdom in the Bible, overlooked and overspiritualized since the dawn of the industrial revolution. She begins by recognizing, correctly, that the business woman of Proverbs 31 is actually a business woman, not a metaphor for wifely domesticity, and then proceeds to uncover passage after passage about business, hidden in plain sight. But what does this abundance of biblical wisdom mean in a world of data-driven management? As a professor of logistics, Stolze’s knows this world cold, and she demonstrates how the biblical material undergirds, enriches, and, at times, challenges twenty-first century empirical management science and practice. A lot in contemporary business is not godly, but it could be. Business can—and should—be a preeminent mission for people of faith seeking to make the world a make better place. Wisdom-Based Business shows how.”
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