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Responsible Leadership in Global Business: A New Approach to Leadership and Its Multi-Level Outcomes

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The article advances an understanding of responsible leadership in global business and offers an agenda for future research in this field. Our conceptualization of responsible leadership draws on deliberative practices and discursive conflict resolution, combining the macro-view of the business firm as a political actor with the micro-view of leadership. We discuss the concept in relation to existing research in leadership. Further, we propose a new model of responsible leadership that shows how such an understanding of leadership can address the challenges of globalization. We thereby propose positive outcomes of responsible leadership across levels of analysis. The model offers research opportunities for responsible leadership in global business.

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  1. A more thorough discussion on the differences between the approach of Maak and Pless and the conception forwarded by Patzer and colleagues is presented elsewhere (Patzer and Scherer 2010).

  2. Trust in leadership studies is conceptualized and measured in the form of a perception of followers, attributing trust to the respective leader, and is not based, e.g., on measuring the quality of the relationship directly (Dirks and Ferrin 2002, p. 612).

  3. The informal and formal (social) control systems encompass to a certain extent what is debated in the CSR literature as compliance and integrity approaches, referring to formal rules and laws as well as to informal values (see critically, Stansbury and Barry 2007; Weaver and Trevino 1999).

  4. For further literature on the determinants of innovation, see the meta-analysis of Damanpour (1991). The relationships between the determinants and innovation were based on theoretical reasoning and empirical findings (Damanpour 1991, p. 557).

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Voegtlin, C., Patzer, M. & Scherer, A.G. Responsible Leadership in Global Business: A New Approach to Leadership and Its Multi-Level Outcomes. J Bus Ethics 105, 1–16 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-011-0952-4

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