Chapter 1. From economics of place to place-based economics -- Chapter 2. The Place of Right Livelihood in Overcoming World Inequity -- Chapter 3. Identity and Authenticity Breaking with our heritage for sustainable regional human development -- Chapter 4. “A place for learning that feels like home”: Meeting diverse students learning needs to promote business sustainability in HE -- Chapter 5. That Which Guilds the Lily: Moving from Aesthetic Value to an Ethical Aesthetic -- Chapter 6. Benedictine Spirituality, Place-Based Sustainability, and Accounting – Lessons from a Medieval Abbey -- Chapter 7. Some considerations on the contribution provided by the religious cultural heritage to a faith identity -- Chapter 8. The Civil Company: Place based corporate social responsibility in dialogue with business ethics and workplace spirituality -- Chapter 9. Building a Global Community of Sustainability, Ethics, and Spirituality. One Village at a Time: Plum Village as a Case Study -- Chapter 10. "Giving nature a place" Implementing EAP (Eco-Appreciation Perspective) while focusing on children- nature relations (CNR) – the need for a new kind of organizations. Chapter 11. Friendship, Social Resistance and Team Work. Indian versus European Philosophical Perspectives -- Chapter 12. Importance of Ecological Consciousness in Corporate Social Responsibility -- Chapter 13. The Common Good University. The Search for an Alternative Path for Business School Education.

Without respecting and nurturing ‘place’ we cannot achieve a state of ecological sustainability. Place-based organizations are not run on a purely materialistic basis. The non-materialistic features of a place, its aesthetics, cultural heritage, community feelings, transcendence, should be integrated into sustainability management. This far-reaching two-volume work breaks with the economic logic of efficiency and profit maximization, and suggests that organizations should inform their sustainability by encompassing feelings of identity with and attachment to place. According to this vision, the editors have compiled scholarly contributions aimed to support the ecological transformation of humankind by exploring both theoretical and practical models that integrate the sense of the place, ethics and spirituality in new ways of organizing of economic and social life. This first volume sets the theoretical direction of the volumes, asking broad aestheticquestions around the ethical and spiritual foundations of sustainability. It will be of interest to scholars, practitioners and students of sustainability, business ethics and spirituality. Mara Del Baldo is Associate Professor of Accounting and Business Administration, Economics of Sustainability and Accountability at the University of Urbino, Italy, Department of Economics, Society and Politics. Maria-Gabriella Baldarelli is Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Bologna, Department of Management, Rimini Campus, Italy. Elisabetta Righini is Full Professor of Commercial Law and Law of Trade and Financial Markets at the School of Law and the School of Economics of University of Urbino, Italy.