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Leadership styles and CSR practice : an examination of sensemaking, institutional drivers and CSR leadership

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Title: Leadership styles and CSR practice : an examination of sensemaking, institutional drivers and CSR leadership
Related: Journal of business ethics, Vol. 93, Issue 2 (2009), p.189-213
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-009-0221-y
Publisher: Springer
Date: 2010
FoR/RFCD Code(s): 150300 Business and Management 220100 Applied Ethics
Author/Creator: Angus-Leppan, Tamsin
Author/Creator: Metcalf, Louise
Author/Creator: Benn, Suzanne
Description: This article examines the explicit and implicit corporate social responsibility (CSR) framework and its implications for leadership style, in a major banking institution. Evidence for existence of the framework’s key concepts in relation to leadership styles was explored through the self-reported sensemaking of leaders charged with CSR programme introduction. Qualitative data analysis indicated that explicit CSR is linked to an autocratic leadership style, whereas implicit CSR is more closely aligned with emergent and authentic styles. Although our results reinforced key aspects of the explicit and implicit CSR framework, they demonstrated conflicting systems of both CSR and leadership within our case organisation and highlighted the difficulty in categorising such a complex concept as CSR according to specific frameworks. Overall, our data suggest that the leadership styles, needed to successfully implement explicit and implicit CSR programmes, are in conflict. Given our finding that these CSR systems can coincide within one organisation, we suggest that the debating style of transformational leadership may be the required linchpin.
Description: 25 page(s)
Subject Keyword: 150300 Business and Management
Subject Keyword: 220100 Applied Ethics
Subject Keyword: corporate social responsibility
Subject Keyword: institutional drivers
Subject Keyword: leadership
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Graduate School of the Environment

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/119560
Identifier: ISSN:1573-0697
Identifier: mq-rm-2009002050
Language: eng
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