Business as Mission – A Comprehensive Guide to Theory and Practice - Softcover

Johnson, C. Neal; Rundle, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0830838651 ISBN 13: 9780830838653

Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press,US, 2009

Synopsis

Business as mission (BAM) is a mission strategy whose time has come. As global economics become increasingly interconnected, Christian business people and entrepreneurs have unanticipated opportunities to build kingdom-strategic business ventures. But Christian companies and business leaders do not automatically accomplish missional purposes. BAM requires mastery of both the world of business and the world of missions, merging and contextualizing both into something significantly different than either alone. C. Neal Johnson offers the first comprehensive guide to business as mission for practitioners. He provides conceptual foundations for understanding BAM's unique place in global mission and prerequisites for engaging in it. Then he offers practical resources for how to do BAM, including strategic planning and step-by-step operational implementation. Drawing on a wide variety of BAM models, Johnson works through details of both mission and business realities, with an eye to such issues as management, sustainability and accountability. Business as mission is a movement with enormous potential. This book breaks new ground in how faith and work intersect and are lived out in cross-cultural contexts, where job creation and community transformation go hand in hand. Come, participate in what may well be one of the most strategic mission paradigms of the 21st century.

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About the Author

C. Neal Johnson (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) is founding dean of the School of Business and is professor of international business at Bakke Graduate University in Seattle, Washington. He has had an extensive and unique thirty-year career as an attorney, banker, educator, business consultant and entrepreneur both domestically and internationally. Steve Rundle is associate professor of economics and business as mission at Biola University in La Mirada, California. His teaching and research interests are focused on the intersection between international economics and faith-based business. He is also the editor of Economic Justice in a Flat World: Christian Perspectives on Globalization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press,US
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0830838651
• ISBN 13: 9780830838653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528