Purpose – This paper aims to indicate how practical wisdom in the western Christian tradition may be introduced into management development. Following recent documents of Catholic social thought, three roads to go are indicated especially concerning: management practice, management education,...

Purpose – This paper aims to focus on business education, which should not exclude strains of religious ethical traditions, e.g. Catholic social thought, and the practical wisdom embodied in them. Design/methodology/approach – Recent traditions of social Catholicism starting from the Papal...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide an overview of this special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The guest editorial introduces the papers in this special issue, focusing on practical wisdom for management from the Chinese classical traditions. Findings – Chinese culture increasingly...

Purpose – The notion of compassion is a cornerstone in Chinese as well as western orientations for business practice. Spiritual and religious traditions, philosophical approaches and historical and present business practices outline this notion in a comparative perspective. This paper seeks to...

Purpose – Corporate compliance practices are often “coercively” structured, coined by a legal discourse and derived from individualist normative concepts. Drawing on the “logic of the Decalogue”, the purpose of this paper is to design an “enabling” approach based on a covenantal...

Purpose – The purpose of this issue is to provide an overview of the special issue on practical wisdom for management from the Jewish traditions. Design/methodology/approach – The guest editorial introduces the papers in this special issue, focusing in practical wisdom for management from...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the special issue on practical wisdom for management from the Islamic traditions. Design/methodology/approach – The guest editorial introduces the papers in this special issue, focusing on practical wisdom for management from...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to help leaders to reflect on how to make difficult decisions by developing practical wisdom based on Indian traditions. In complex scenarios, when leaders are is crisis, they often tend to rush into decisions without proper reflection, rely too heavily...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the microfinance industry practices can benefit from the culture and spiritual traditions of a country. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the Bhagavad Gita and the codes of Manu and Kautilya to describe the background of Hindu...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss how management education in India can benefit from applying a Vedic Learning style. It argues that transformational learning, a key to transforming mindset, also increases the importance of ethical behavior in management education....