Aesthetic Leadership in Chinese Business: A Philosophical Perspective

Abstract

aesthetic leadership, Confucian ethics, pragmatism, instrumentalism, China,

Factors Impacting Ethical Behavior in a Chinese State-Owned Steel Company

“…Over the years, we have learnt that Western management practices do not uniformly apply to the rest of the world (Oumlil and Balloun 2009;Tsalikis and Lassar 2009). In addition, a good command of cultural values and ethical standards of other countries are key to be successful in international business (Ferrel et al 2005;Zhang et al 2011).…”

“…Wang et al (2010) investigated how financial investors responded to firms' corporate social responsibility in China. Zhang et al (2011) studied esthetic leadership in Chinese business. Deshpande et al (2010) examined factors impacting ethical practices of successful managers in China.…”

“…They found that young Chinese were very concerned about integrity and product safety. Zhang et al (2011) contend that Chinese business ethics has emerged from Confucianism which is very different from Western traditions. They stress that since Chinese and Western economic and cultural practices are different, there is a dire need to have in-depth studies in different Chinese organizations.…”

Complexity absorption: a processual strategic approach to corporate entrepreneurship strategy

“…Thus the successful strategies to deal with complexity are to seek for identifying tendencies in the current situation then acting to manipulate circumstances in ways that enable a trend to develop in such a way that the desired objective will emerge by itself (Aligica, 2007). Therefore, in contrast with the ontology of complexity reduction, Chinese philosophical ideas about social practice (as pragmatic in a value rational way) are impossible to study and present at a sophisticated level by employing a rational structural approach (Zhang et al, 2011). One of the objectives of this research is to offer an alternative perspective to study unique nonlinear entrepreneurial strategy to deal with complexity in the Chinese context.…”

Pragmatic leadership: A return to wisdom

“…In keeping with our value-rational pragmatic approach, we suggest that understanding Māori leadership as being influenced by mātauranga Māori and whakawhanaungatanga, establishes a culturally constituted logic to their activity, which draws us to conceptions of leadership practice that are differently constituted (Table 1). Here, we suggest a value-rational pragmatic view of leadership that rests on a epistemological and ontological foundation of flexibly defined norms that are malleable to different cultural contexts and conceives of a relationship-centred value rational world (Zhang et al, 2011).…”