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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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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).
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).
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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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