Leadership in Sustainability: Creating an Interface  between Creativity and Leadership Theory in Dealing  with “Wicked Problems”

Newman, Renée

doi:10.3390/su6095955

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“…As Newman-Storen [12] says, "sustainability requires change, and change requires leadership" (p. 5957). Concerns regarding these scandals, together with concerns over environmental, social, and economic issues, indicate that society in general is demanding this type of leadership from those who can exercise it [13].…”

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Responsible Leadership and Salespeople’s Creativity: The Mediating Effects of CSR Perceptions

2019

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Although sales tasks require creative thinking, salespeople’s creativity has been identified as one of the most under-researched topics in the sales literature. This study contributes to filling this gap by understanding how responsible leadership and corporate social responsibility (CSR) perceptions can contribute to fostering salespeople’s creativity. This study’s empirical analysis is based on information provided by 176 supervisor–salesperson dyads from 96 companies, and the results indicate that responsible leadership is positively related to salespeople’s creativity. Furthermore, our findings confirm that the relationship between responsible leadership and salespeople’s creativity is mediated by salespeople’s CSR perception, their job satisfaction, and their identification with the organization. Sales leaders should recognize that by practicing responsible leadership behavior, they can create this type of work environment for their subordinates.

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Responsible Leadership and Salespeople’s Creativity: The Mediating Effects of CSR Perceptions

2019

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“…Social entrepreneurship, which has been viewed as catalytic leadership, brings about social change geared to address societal concerns [1][2][3]. This form of entrepreneurship is gaining importance as a line of scholarly inquiry [4,5].…”

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Sustainability, Transformational Leadership, and Social Entrepreneurship

Muralidharan

Pathak

2018

Sustainability

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This article examines the extent to which culturally endorsed transformational leadership theories (CLTs) and the sustainability of society, both considered societal level institutional indicators, impact the emergence of social entrepreneurship. Using 107,738 individual-level responses from 27 countries for the year 2009 obtained from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey, and supplementing with country-level data obtained from Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) and Sustainability Society Foundation (SSF), our findings from multilevel analysis show that transformational CLTs and sustainability conditions of society positively influence the likelihood of individuals becoming social entrepreneurs. Further, the effectiveness of transformational CLTs matters more for social entrepreneurship when the sustainability of society is low, which suggests the interaction between cultural leadership styles and societal sustainability. This article contributes to comparative entrepreneurship research by introducing strong cultural antecedents of social entrepreneurship in transformational CLTs and societal sustainability. We discuss various implications and limitations of our study, and we suggest directions for future research.

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“…Creativity together with collaboration and problem-solving are highlighted as key meta-knowledge competences that enable educational designers, teachers and of course students to act on their disciplinary knowledge and develop new forms of personal and collective knowledge about our rapidly changing world (Kereluik et al, 2013). Channeling the cultivation of such skills in education is crucial since they are underlined as necessary to support the transition to new ways of thinking, learning and addressing many of the current and challenging environmental and sustainability challenges of our times (Newman-Storen, 2014;Sharp et al, 2021). Teaching and learning about these challenges requires all parties concerned to develop dispositions cultivating such skills and competences.…”

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Boundary Crossing Creativity in the Design of Digital Resources for Teaching and Learning about Climate Change

Kynigos

Δασκολιά

2021

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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We approach creativity in educational design with teachers working together in interdisciplinary communities of practice to develop resources for teaching and learning about climate change in formal school settings. We address climate change as a socio-scientific ‘wicked problem’ and discuss the notion of creativity in educational design in a context of transformative intervention in education leading away from silo academic domain paradigms. We perceived the resources as boundary objects during the process of communication and joint design by the diverse community members. Our interest focused on studying the boundary crossing processes which facilitated creative ideas to come out, selected and transcribed into the actual resources designed. Critical episode analysis showed that boundary crossing mechanisms were employed in the interactions among the educational designers aided by and in interaction with digital media supporting collaboration. These socio-technical interactions functioned as an empowered professional learning and working milieu, within which creative processes and outcomes were nurtured. In particular, educational designers, along with trying to frame climate change as a wicked problem, attempted to address the challenging issue of designing a creative educational resource on this topic. Our research suggests that boundary crossing creativity in interdisciplinary teams of educational designers can be an answer to not only how to focus learning on addressing the grand wicked problems of our times, but also how to deal with the multiple challenges arising from educational design per se.

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Leadership in Sustainability: Creating an Interface between Creativity and Leadership Theory in Dealing with “Wicked Problems”

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Responsible Leadership and Salespeople’s Creativity: The Mediating Effects of CSR Perceptions

Responsible Leadership and Salespeople’s Creativity: The Mediating Effects of CSR Perceptions

Sustainability, Transformational Leadership, and Social Entrepreneurship

Boundary Crossing Creativity in the Design of Digital Resources for Teaching and Learning about Climate Change

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