Business as Mission Articles

General Papers and Articles

 

The Mission of Business: CSR+

Mats Tunehag, September 2009  Connections Vol.8, 2

The strategic importance of missional business in the world today, an overview of business as mission.

 

 

Larger-size Business as Mission Companies: An important subset of fulfilling the Great Commission

D. Nordstrom & V. Liang, September 2009  Connections Vol.8, 2

Looking at various approaches of using business in mission and the role of larger-sized businesses in the work of the Great Commission.

 

 

Bossa Nova, The "Beautiful Game" and Business as Mission

Joćo Mordomo, September 2009  Connections Vol.8, 2

How business as mission helps Brazilian (and other) emerging mission movements overcome the barriers of "getting out, getting in, staying in and sinking in".

 

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A Global Overview of the Business as Mission Movement: Needs and Gaps

Mats Tunehag, September 2008  Lausanne Resource Article

Identifying 9 needs and gaps in the business as mission movement for prayer, discussion, planning and action.

 

 

God Means Business: An Introduction to Business as Mission

Mats Tunehag, April 2008   Unpublished Booklet

Short 8 page booklet serving as an introduction to business as mission.

 

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Distinctives and Challenges of Business as Mission

N. Johnson & S. Rundle, 2006  in Business as Mission: from impoverished to empowered

Looking at the broad movement where missions and business integrate, the streams within this and the barriers still to face.

 

 

Unleashing the Brazilian Evangelical Missionary Force: The ‘Business as Mission’ Model as an Integrated Approach for Frontier Ministry

Joćo Mordomo, 2006    Strategic Network Article

A paper examining the potential of Business as Mission for Brazilian evangelicals.

 

 

Business as Mission: Holistic Transformation of People & Societies

Mats Tunehag, 2006  Unpublished Manuscript

3 page article giving a short introduction to Business as Mission.

 

 

Building a Great Commission Company

S. Rundle and T. Steffen, 2004  Regent Business Review 11

Extract from the book Great Commission Companies, this article outlines action steps to establishing a Great Commission Company.

 

 

Lausanne Occasional Paper on Business as Mission

Business as Mission Issue Group, 2004  Lausanne Forum Occasional Paper #59

Landmark 82 page paper on business as mission written as a collaboration of over 70 people involved in the business as mission movement. 

 

 

Toward a Theology of Business: A Statement on the Biblical Purposes of Business

Van Duzer et al.,  2004  in Business as a Calling

The faculty of an evangelical Christian university’s business school wrestles with the fundamental question of how does God perceive the institution of business and how does God intend for it to function? 

 

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Journal Editions focused on Business as Mission

 

Connections Vol.8, 2   Business as Usual

The Journal of the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission

 

Mission Frontiers Nov-Dec 2007  Can Business be Mission?

The Journal of the U.S. Center for World Mission

 

IJFM  Vol. 15:1 & Vol. 14:3  Tentmaking I & II

International Journal of Frontier Missions

 

 

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