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Strategic Leadership and the Culture for Sustainability

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Sustainability Mindset and Transformative Leadership

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Sustainability mindset requires a very specific type of responsible leadership; one that is able to create the adequate atmosphere for fostering a culture of sustainability within the organization. The different Business Schools, perspectives, and approaches regarding strategic leadership and culture have followed different approaches and methodologies to address the studies carried out to date. The authors have thought it opportune to review them in order to visualize the authors’ approaches; at the same time, set out the importance of considering the new trend that incorporates culture and strategic vision into the perspectives and studies to be carried out in the future.

In this work, the authors want to propose a specific type of leader of the future, in order to create the necessary conditions to achieve a change in mentality towards sustainability in an organization, with the participation of all its members, creating a sustainable culture and awareness of new ways of running companies that are the best for the world.

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  1. Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

    Consuelo Garcia de la Torre

  2. Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, Mexico

    Osmar Arandia Perez

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    Aixa A. Ritz

  2. UN PRME Working Group on Sustainability Mindset, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

    Isabel Rimanoczy

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Garcia de la Torre, C., Perez, O.A. (2021). Strategic Leadership and the Culture for Sustainability. In: Ritz, A.A., Rimanoczy, I. (eds) Sustainability Mindset and Transformative Leadership. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76069-4_3

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