Handbook on Responsible Leadership and Governance in Global BusinessJonathan P. Doh, Stephen A. Stumpf Ethics, social responsibility, leadership, governance. These terms are heard in the classroom, in the boardroom, and viewed on the front page of newspapers and magazines. Yet serious attention to the relationships among these concepts is lacking. Although commitments to leadership, ethics, and social responsibility are evident, individuals and companies are falling short in combining these duties into policies and cultures that guide behavior and decisions. The missing element is a broad-based and integrated approach to responsible leadership and governance. This volume provides the leading thinking on these issues and includes a discussion of emerging areas that require future attention. The contributors - leading scholars in the fields of leadership, governance and social responsibility - summarize the state of the literature, identify complementary insights and perspectives, discuss areas of conflict and disagreement, and include a provocative and stimulating agenda for further investigation. They point up practical consequences of these perspectives in light of developments that have exposed the shortcomings in practice. Several contributors focus specifically on the challenges faced by global companies in developing and maintaining leadership and governance practices that are responsive to different national institutional and cultural settings. Thorough coverage and insightful discussion make this an essential reference for scholars and students of leadership, corporate responsibility and professional ethics, as well as for all those directly responsible for establishing the ethical codes and practices of their organizations. |
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... decisions are almost always taken behind closed doors . To understand how responsible decisions are and should be taken , the closed doors must be opened , and to do so we peer into several such rooms at critical moments of decision ...
... decisions , and chief executive Whitman had already engendered the right skills . Since joining eBay in 1998 , when it employed a mere 35 , Whitman had invested heavily in ... decisions under Leadership : making responsible decisions 81.
... decisions and to invest nearly everything to ensure their execution . Responsible decisions within all three clusters depend upon application of all five prescriptive decision criteria , but each cluster calls for additional decision ...
Contents
Towards a framework of responsible leadership | 3 |
strategy resources ethics | 19 |
What leaders and their organizations can do to develop | 42 |
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