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0000-0003-3497-7541
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University of South Australia
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University of South Australia Business School
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Publisher: Emerald
Date: 09-06-2014
Abstract: – International service learning is a new trend in management development and a new field of research. International Service Learning Programs (ISLP) are experiential corporate volunteering initiatives designed to give employees the chance to work for a short spell abroad (often in a developing or emerging market) on a service assignment with a partner from the social sector (e.g. NGO, social enterprise). The service assignment is a project defined with a social-sector partner on which the corporate employee works full-time on a pro-bono basis and contributes his/her knowledge and expertise in exchange for a rich learning experience. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the use of ISLP in business firms and conducts a comparative analysis of six programs set up by multinational corporations from three industries (health, technology, and accounting and professional services). It identifies characteristics and similarities among programs, discusses differences, offers criteria for program classification and areas for future research. As such, it is an important starting point for quantitative studies. This is a qualitative study based on six ISLP. The data were gathered through desk research, interviews with program representatives and a structured questionnaire containing closed and open-ended questions. – Regardless of the stated aims (which usually stress value for the participants, the company and the communities), most programs had one clear focus (two programs in the area of leadership development, two in the area of community development) while two showed closely linked foci (with slightly greater emphasis on organization development than on the other areas). – The authors suggest that the type of ISLP has an effect on the learning outcomes. Since companies are still testing usefulness and outcomes of these programs, academic research that provides comparative quantitative data on the outcomes of such programs is of great value for business practice. – This systematic overview and classification of ISLP is a starting point for empirical program comparisons as well as for the evaluation of different service learning approaches. This could prove very useful for other companies planning to set up or refine their own ISLP to achieve certain outcomes. – This is the first paper that compares ISLP run by multinational corporations. It identifies a number of category areas in which they differ (e.g. in placement length, nature of the assignment – in idual or in teams, learning methods used) and provides a typology for program classification (leadership development, organization development or community development).
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-2021
DOI: 10.4324/B22741-32
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 13-08-2021
Abstract: Today’s pressing global societal challenges are urgent and require substantial solutions and innovations that tackle the roots of a problem. These challenges call for new forms of leadership, stakeholder engagement and innovation. This paper aims to examine whether, why and how business leaders engage in social innovation. The authors argue that leadership perspective and motivation are important drivers for developing substantial social innovations suited to resolving societal challenges at their roots. More specifically, the authors propose that intra-personal factors (degree of care and compassion), an inter-relational perspective of leadership (shareholder versus stakeholder) and the corresponding leadership motivation (personalized versus socialized) may unveil what quality of social innovation (first-order versus second-order solutions) is pursued by a business leader. Implications for future research and practice are provided. The authors revisit the concept of social innovation and explore its connection with care and compassion. They suggest a series of propositions pertaining to the relationship between different configurations of leadership and different forms of social innovation. Responsible business leaders with an integrative leader trait configuration (stakeholder perspective, socialized motivation, high degree of care and compassion) are more likely to foster substantial second-order social innovations for uprooting societal problems than business leader with an instrumental leader trait configuration (shareholder perspective, personalized motivation, low degree of care and compassion). An organization’s stakeholder culture plays a moderating role in the relation between leadership and social innovation. This paper reveals a path for conceptualizing leadership in social innovation from a stakeholder perspective. Future research should investigate the role of business leaders, their mindsets, styles and relational competencies in co-creation processes of social innovation empirically. If the development of substantial second-order social innovations requires leaders with a stakeholder perspective and socialized approach, then this has implications for leader selection and development. This paper advocates for new kinds of leaders in facilitating and sustaining social innovations to tackle global societal challenges.
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-07-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1002/HRM.21506
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-07-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-03-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-08-2009
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-07-2022
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2012
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-06-2023
DOI: 10.35241/EMERALDOPENRES.15078.1
Abstract: Responsible leadership is a concept that links leadership, corporate social responsibility, sustainability and ethics to business performance and actions of senior executives and board members. This keynote illuminates how responsible leadership mindsets and their erse understandings of the purpose of business are related to organizational level stakeholder engagement and corporate social responsibility approaches at the upper echelon. A first link is established between broader social movements (e.g., US Business Roundtable, Conscious Capitalism, Social Entrepreneurship movement) and the social identity of responsible leaders, thereby contributing to the discussion of the changing nature of the purpose of business. The article closes with a Q& A-session.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-2021
DOI: 10.4324/B22741-28
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 29-04-2020
Abstract: In this article, we describe how neuroscience can be used in the study of team dynamics. Specifically, we point out methodological limitations in current team-based research and explain how quantitative electroencephalogram technology can be applied to the study of emergent processes in teams. In so doing, we describe how this technology and related analyses can explain emergent processes in teams through an ex le of the neural assessment of attention of team members who are engaged in a problem-solving task. Specifically, we demonstrate how the real-time, continuous neural signatures of team members’ attention in a problem-solving context emerges in teams over time. We then consider how further development of this technology might advance our understanding of the emergence of other team-based constructs and research questions.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-08-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-04-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JOMS.12195
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-05-2014
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 16-05-2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 16-08-2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2017
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE24621
Abstract: Our growing awareness of the microbial world’s importance and ersity contrasts starkly with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA sequencing, a lack of standardized protocols and common analytical frameworks impedes comparisons among studies, hindering the development of global inferences about microbial life on Earth. Here we present a meta-analysis of microbial community s les collected by hundreds of researchers for the Earth Microbiome Project. Coordinated protocols and new analytical methods, particularly the use of exact sequences instead of clustered operational taxonomic units, enable bacterial and archaeal ribosomal RNA gene sequences to be followed across multiple studies and allow us to explore patterns of ersity at an unprecedented scale. The result is both a reference database giving global context to DNA sequence data and a framework for incorporating data from future studies, fostering increasingly complete characterization of Earth’s microbial ersity.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-11-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-05-2006
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 29-07-2014
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-08-2022
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-06-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S10551-021-04865-6
Abstract: In light of grand societal challenges, most recently the global Covid-19 pandemic, there is a call for research on responsible leadership. While significant advances have been made in recent years towards a better understanding of the concept, a gap exists in the understanding of responsible leadership in emerging countries, specifically how leaders resolve prevalent moral dilemmas. Following Werhane (1999), we use moral imagination as an analytical approach to analyze a dilemmatic stakeholder conflict (between indigenous communities in rural India and an emerging market multinational enterprise headquartered in the same country) through the lense of different responsible leadership mindsets and in light of different ethical principles and moral background theories. Based on this analysis, we arrive at a tentative moral judgement, concluding that the instrumental approach is morally inferior and recommending the integrative approach as the morally superior choice . In the subsequent discussion—focussed on what “could” (instead of “should”) be done, we apply the integrative script and use moral imagination as a pathway for generating morally justifiable solutions. Through this analysis, we provide novel insights on how to apply an integrative responsible leadership approach to a stakeholder conflict situation, using the single case study to expand the responsible leadership discussion to emerging markets.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 10-11-2017
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 09-03-2023
DOI: 10.3390/SU15064922
Abstract: The COVID-19 crisis provides an opportunity for sustainable renewal and requires responsible leaders who are responsive to stakeholder needs and able to innovate in light of new challenges. This study draws on stakeholder theory and responsible leadership theory to examine (a) the challenges industry leaders face as a result of COVID-19 and (b) their innovative responses in light of their responsibilities to stakeholders and society. We conducted a corpus linguistics study based on high-volume media websites reporting tourism and hospitality news on leadership and innovation. We applied a stakeholder and social responsibility lens to the data analysis. We discovered that, despite the challenges that leaders faced, some transcended self-interest or integrated self-interest with consideration for the interest of others and formed partnerships with other stakeholders resulting in win-win solutions. In particular, we found evidence of leaders who (1) responded to the needs of owners, employees, customers, and community stakeholders and (2) developed not only incremental innovations but substantial ones benefitting stakeholders in business and society. We discuss responsible leadership as a pathway for transforming the tourism and hospitality industry towards a more sustainable and community-centred ‘new normal’. Based on our findings, we present recommendations for future research and policymakers.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-11-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2004
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-11-2017
DOI: 10.1038/NATURE25028
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2011
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-02-2019
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-09-2009
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Date: 2021
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 25-01-2014
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 26-02-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-07-2018
DOI: 10.1038/NBT0718-660D
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-05-2017
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 2013
Publisher: Academy of Management
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2013
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