Publications
Selected publications from East West team and faculty
Books
For articles on the ideas and practices at EWS please go to our sister webpage, eastwestinterconnect.
Bronwen Rees
The Construction of Management: Gender and Identity at Work, Edward Elgar (2004)
International Business, 2nd edition, Pearson International, 2004
Tamas Agocs
A Garuda röpte. (tranlsation of Lama Shabkar’s "Flight of the Garuda")Sabkar Lama 2003. Budapest: A Tan Kapuja Buddhista Főiskola.
A Hallás által megszabadító bardó útmutatás nagykönyve. (translation and commentary of the Bardo Thödol, “The Tibetan Book of the Dead) FORTHCOMING
Gyémánt áttörés. ("Diamond Breakthrough, a Study on the Diamond Cutter Sutra") 2000. Budapest: A Tan Kapuja Buddhista Főiskola
John Wilson
A Deeper Kind of Beauty, 2004 Windhorse Publications, Birmingham
Change your Mind 1999 Windhorse Publications, Birmingham
Joel Magnuson
Mindful Economics , How the US Economy Works, Why it Matters, and How it Could Be Different 2008 Seven Stories Press, New York
John Nirenberg
Global Leadership (Capstone/Wiley 2002).
Power Tools: A Leader’s Guide to the Latest Management Thinking (Prentice Hall, 1997)
The Living Organization: Transforming Teams Into Workplace Communities.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Analysing Competence: Gender and Identity at Work’
Work, Gender and Organization
Vol.10, No.5 (2003)
B.Rees and E.Garnsey
The International Patchwork:Introducing reflexivity into the Business Curriculum
Innovations in Education and Teaching International, Journal of SEDA, Vol.40, No.2, pp. 123-133 May 2003
B.Rees and J.Preston
Unlocking History: The Shadow of Hungarian History
Journal of Eastern and Central Europe Management
Vol, 6, 4, 2001
K.Illes and B.Rees
The Conduct of Management and the Management of Conduct: Contemporary Managerial Discourse and the Constitution of the ‘Competent Manager’
Journal of Management Studies, Vol.33, 3, May 1996
P.du Gay, G.Salaman and B.Rees
Discourse and Enactment: Gender and Inequality in Text and Context
Human Relations Vol.49, 8, 1996
E.Garnsey and B.Rees
(Awarded highly commended for best paper 1999)
Personnel Review, Vol.24, No.1 1995
B.Rees and E.Garnsey
Practitioner /review articles
Spiritualitás és közösség:
Ökotáj 35-36. Debrecen, pp. 123-128 2005
B.Rees, T.Agocs, Z.Csurgo
Tamas Agocs
"A megvilágosodáshoz vezető út állomásai", (Hungarian translation, with explanations, of Tsong-kha-pa: Byang-chub lam-rim mdor-bsdus. In: Fehér Judit (edit.) 1994. Tibeti buddhista filozófia. (Történelem és Kultúra 11) Budapest: Balassi Kiadó – MTA Orientalisztikai Munkaközösség, 91–102.
" Az éntelenség logikai bizonyítása – Kamalasíla: A Gyémánt-szútra kommentárja.” (Logical Proof pf Selflessness from Kamalashila’s Commentary on the Diamond Cutter Sutra) In: Fehér Judit – Horváth Zoltán (edit.) 1995. Buddhista logika. (Történelem és Kultúra 12) Budapest: Balassi Kiadó – MTA Orientalisztikai Munkaközösség, 109–124.
"The Diamondness of the Diamond Sutra", In: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Vol 53. 2000. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 65-77.
" A lét önteremtő dinamikája a tibeti rDzogs chen hagyományban.” ("The Self-Evolving Dynamic of Being in the Tibetan rDzogs chen Tradition") In: Birtalan Ágnes – Yamaji Masanori (edit.) 2002. Orientalista Nap 2001. Budapest: MTA Orientalisztikai Bizottság – ELTE Orientalisztikai Intézet, 5–17.
The Mystery of Meaning (Bohm and Buddhism). 2005. "Science and Religion: Global Perspectives" Conference of the Metanexus Institute,http://www.metanexus.net/conference2005/pdf/agocs.pdf
"A szamszára eredete, avagy: Hogyan vált ki a szamszára a lét eredeti forrásából.” ("How Samsara Arose from the Original Ground of Being?") In: Fehér Judit, Kalmár Éva, Ruzsa Ferenc (edit.) 2006. Keréknyomok 1. Budapest: A Tan Kapuja Buddhista Főiskola, 119-134.
"A Látomásbeli Önmegszabadító: Szembesülés az értelemmel – egy beavatásos szöveg a Köztes Lét Könyveihez.” (translation of Rig pa ngo sprod gcer mthog rang grol from the Bardo Thödol terma cycle) In: Birtalan Ágnes (edit.) 2005. Bolor-un Gerel. Tanulmányok Kara György 70. születésnapjára. Budapest: ELTE BTK Belső-ázsiai Tanszék. 13-23.
"A mindentudás gyakorlása" – A Nyolcezer-soros Önfelülmúló Megismerés első fejezete." (translation of the 1st Chapter of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā prajñāpāramitā sūtra). In: Keréknyomok 2. 2007, Budapest TKBF. pp. 30-46.
BOOK ARTICLES
‘Uncovering the communist and capitalist shadow: developing relational forms of inquiry and writing’
In Research Methods for Transitional Economies. Eds. Clarke, and Michailova, S, Palgrave, 2004, pp 57-77
K.Illes and B.Rees
So we think we’re talking the same language? An exploration into globalisation, language and ethics. In National Culture - Globalization ‘Roots and wings’. 2002, University of West Hungary, Faculty of Economic Sciences pp. 206-214.
‘What price competitiveness? Unintended Consequences of Managerial Knowledge Transfer to Hungary’ in Dimensions of Competitiveness. Eds. Wall, S.and Lloyd-Reason, L.Elgar, 2000
B.Rees and K.Illes
‘Unlocking History: Communicating Across Cultures’
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multi-Organizational Partnerships and Co-operative Strategy 6-8 July 2000, Leuven, Belgium (published in 2001)
B.Rees
Selected conference papers
Building Bridges Between East and West
Bronwen Rees
Keynote speech at 2nd Buddhist Economic Conferrence, Ubon Ratachanee University, Thailand, April 2009
Towards Ethical inquiry in Organisations
Bronwen Rees and John Wilson
Heterodox Economics conference, Cambridge, July, 2008
Joel Magnuson
Mindful Economy and Ecology: Integrating Buddhism and Institutionalism Into a Framework for Sustainability” at the 10th Annual Association for Heterodox Economists (AHE) Conference at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, July 3-6, 2008
Developing Mindful Inquiry in the Modern Organisation
Bronwen Rees and John Wilson
MidWest Economics Association, Chicago, March 13- 16, 2008
Integrating body and mind: a psychospiritual approach to therapy
Dr Bronwen Rees
Keynote speech at Second National Conference on Transpersonal Psychotherapy, September 2007
The East-West Crucible: exploring the application of Buddhist theory and practice in the modern organisation
Bronwen Rees and Tamas Agocs
‘Europe-Asia Dialogue on Business, Ethics and Spirituality. Annual Conference of the European SPES forum, June 30-July 2, Budapest, Hungary, 2007
Building trust in the workplace
Bronwen Rees, Katalin Illes and Greg O’Shea
5th Global Conference on Business and Economics, Cambridge University, July 6-8, 2006
Embodying the Feminine: Gender and Dialogue
Work, Gender and Organization Conference, Warwick, June 22-24, 2005
Towards an understanding of organisational transformation through ethical
enquiry
Bronwen Rees and John Wilson
Management Theory at Work Conference Leadership, Learning and Participation
Lancaster University, Monday 14th – Wednesday, 16th April 2003
Unity in diversity and diversity in unity: consciousness and myth in organisational life
Bronwen Rees and Dh. Atula and Dh. Danavira
Workshop on A New Agenda for Organisation Theory in the 21st , Brussels, Belgium , February 7-8, 2002 and 'It's a Relational World' Warwick, March 13-15 2002
Organising realities: a Buddhist perspective
Bronwen Rees, R.Huson and P. Dunlop
Employment Research Unit, 17th annual conference, Cardiff, U.K. 12-13 September 2002
Globalisation, communication, meaning.
Ist International conference on globalisation, Sopron, Hungary, April 2002
The Transformation of Educational Processes in Hungary: Fragmentation or Integration?
Bronwen Rees and Katalin Illes
5th Asean Inter-University Seminar on Social Development, Singapore, May 23-25 2001
Stillness in the Creation of a Dynamic Consciousness of Self and Other
Bronwen Rees with Dh. Danavira, Former Chairman of Cambridge Buddhist Centre,
‘It’s a Relational World’, conference on language and communication, University of Warwick, March 7-9, 2001
Human Resource Management in the UK: Towards an Organisational Ethics
Keynote speech and in proceedings of the national Human Resource Management conference, University of Vesprem, Hungary, April 24-25 2001
Developing Competent managers: The Shadow of Hungarian History
Bronwen Rees and Katalin Illes
Conference on Central and Eastern European Transition, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 20-22, 2000
Unlocking History: Communicating across Cultures
Bronwen Rees
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Multi-Organizational Partnerships and Co-operative Strategy Leuven, Belgium, 6-8 July 2000
The Take-up of HRM Practices in Hungary: Illusion or Disillusion?
Bronwen Rees and Katalin Illes
15th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, Fontainebleau, France, 30 March-1 April 2000 ( one of eight papers selected from 50 submissions)
What Price Competitiveness? Unintended Consequences of Managerial Knowledge Transfer to Hungary
Bronwen Rees and Katalin Illes
1st Centre for International Business and Economic Research Conference, Anglia Polytechnic University, September 1999
The Transfer of Western Managerial Knowledge to Hungary
Bronwen Rees and Katalin Illes
14th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, St Gallen, Switzerland, March 29-30 1999) and at the Human Resource for Development: People and Performance Conference,Manchester, 27-30 June 1999
‘Re-becoming’ in Right Livelihood
Bronwen Rees
6th Workshop on Managerial and Organizational Cognition, Colchester, UK, June 1-3 1999
Transcending Consumption; New Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Management
Bronwen Rees
Workshop on the Challenges of Managing the Third Sector, Edinburgh, June 12-14 1999
The Discourse of Competence: Language of Empowerment or Control?
Bronwen Rees
3rd International Conference on Organizational Discourse, King’s College, University of London, 29-31 July 1998
Managing to Liberate or Managing to Control? The Rise and Rise of Instrumental Rationality in Modern Corporations
Bronwen Rees
14th EGOS Colloquium, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July 9/11 1998
The Discourse of Competence: Language of Empowerment or Control?
Bronwen Rees and Elizabeth Garnsey
Work, Employment and Society, Cambridge, September 14-16, 1998