Ridley Hall, Cambridge

Questions of Business Life by Richard Higginson

Richard's book is a protest - against the marginalisation of Christianity by business, and the marginalisation of business by Christianity. The business world finds little of significance for its activities in the Christian faith or the Christian church. The church feels the same about business. This is not how God intended things to be, and it is vital that both these processes of marginalisation - pushing to the edges - are reversed.

Questions of Business Life is also the story of Faith in Business over the period 1996-2002. Each chapter of the book is both a report and a further reflection on one of the topics covered in the conference and seminar programme. They are:

Issues about doing business corporately:

• The nature and purpose of a company: the stakeholder debate
• Changing stakeholder relations: the development of supply chain management
• Can partnership really work? Establishing trust in the construction industry
•  The changing faces of loyalty: rewriting the psychological contract

Issues about doing business globally:

• Fuelling the consumer society: the ethics of marketing
• Tackling international corruption: doing business without bribes
• Saving the planet: business and sustainable development
• Business without frontiers: the growth of e-commerce

Issues about doing business individually:

• Influencing organisations for good? The role of the consultant
• Changing patterns of work: the portfolio lifestyle
• Spirituality and the workplace: a new paradigm at work?
• The revived idea of vocation: calling in the secular world

Questions of Business Life shows how a robust and imaginative biblical theology, linked to the well-informed, practical understanding that businesspeople bring, has a refreshing and often unexpected relevance to a whole series of topical issues.

Marginalisation has to stop. Richard's book reveals how and why.

Book Availability

Questions of Business Life is now out of print, but available as an ebook download by clicking on the book on the right. While there is no charge to download the book, we would welcome a suggested donation of £7 (or whatever you can afford) towards the work of Faith in Business.