Sustainability Leadership: Linking Theory and Practice

Visser, Wayne; Courtice, Polly

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1947221

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“…In this model, sustainable leadership is enacted in a particular social, cultural, and institutional context, and is grounded in a set of personal and organizational values [4,8,18,28,52]. Examples of values that have been proposed to foster sustainability include moderation, prudence, mutual respect, the value of individuals, excellence, innovation, quality, and ethical behavior [23,24,28,43,44,57,58]. These values underlie both the vision that leaders and stakeholders strive to achieve, as well as the nature of the leader-follower interactions [3,23,28,[57][58][59][60].…”

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Science Mapping of the Knowledge Base on Sustainable Leadership, 1990–2018

2018

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The rise of sustainable development as a field of applied research has been observed across a wide range of disciplines. Successful change towards sustainability in organizations and societies requires leadership to provide a vision, set direction, and motivate people to move towards new goals. Thus, sustainable leadership is emerging as a new domain of study within the field of management. This review of research employed science mapping tools to examine 952 Scopus-indexed documents explicitly concerned with sustainable leadership. The goals of the review were to document the size, growth trajectory, and geographic distribution of this literature, identify key journals, authors, and documents, analyze the intellectual structure of this knowledge base, and highlight emerging topics. The review documented a modest-sized knowledge base of recent vintage, concentrated in Western developed societies but global in scope. Six Schools of Thought were identified within this knowledge base, one of which—Sustainable Leadership—was singled out for attention. As the first bibliometric review of research on sustainable leadership, this review provides a reference for scholars entering this domain, as well as guidance with respect to high value frameworks, foci for future research, and practical implications.

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Science Mapping of the Knowledge Base on Sustainable Leadership, 1990–2018

2018

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“…In doing so, the leaders adopt new ways of seeing; thinking and interacting that result in innovative and come to sustainable solution. The sustainable solver such SL is an individual who motivate employees and supports sustainability action towards a better world [6] either in present or future. Added to that, motivation and influencing employees towards organisational goals is one of elements in business practices.…”

Section: Sustainable Leadership (Sl)mentioning

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Theoretical Review on Sustainable Leadership (SL)

Zulkiffli

Latiffi

2016

MATEC Web Conf.

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Leadership has been identified as one of the factor contributes to construction organisation success. Therefore, leadership has acts as an admixture to the sum of leader's effort and subordinates teamwork in order to accomplish organisational goals. There are several types of leadership style that have been practiced by leaders in the construction industry, however, there are still several morality issues such as corruptions, mismanagement and spillages occurred among leaders in the industry. Therefore, a new established leadership style such as sustainable leadership (SL) is needed to reduce any circumstances that can affect both individual and organisation in the construction industry. SL has been recognised by its holistic approaches, which include sustainability elements into it. Additionally, SL is not just depending on leader's ability and resolution only, but to maintain the continuously efforts and achieving results are important. The aim of this paper is to explore the theoretical review of sustainable leadership (SL). A literature review on sustainable leadership (SL) is gained from journals and books of SL and leadership style in construction industry. The overall intent of this paper is to highlight the values and benefits of SL so that it can be adapted by leaders in construction organisation.

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“…Sustainability leadership has many parallels to strategic planning and contingency theories of leadership. It requires a deep understanding of systems, emotional intelligence, strong values, a compelling vision, an inclusive style, an innovative approach and long term thinking (Bryson 2011;Visser and Courtice 2011). Hay (2010) distinguished leadership from supervision and management.…”

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“…Lambright and Quinn (2011) found that the experience of having been on the margins of society at some point during their lives makes leaders more attentive to issues faced by marginalised groups. Visser and Courtice (2011) broadened the relevance of empathy and claimed that sensitivity towards the perspective of others is one of the attributes of leadership that differentiates sustainability leaders from corporate leaders.…”

Section: Leadership In Administration and Managementmentioning

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Leadership in sustainability planning: propagating visions through empathic communication

Senbel

2014

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Despite their lack of decision-making power, planners frequently prevail in advancing strong sustainability agendas. A review of leadership and planning literature suggests that they employ collaborative practice. Using an ethnographic methodology that draws from the stories and actions of six planners with sustainability mandates, supplemented with a survey of their staff and colleagues, this research examines how they do it. Findings suggest that despite variety in their organisational contexts, the planners relied on strong visions and on forging and maintaining relationships to set and implement sustainability mandates. The planners deployed participative and collaborative values selectively in support of their mandates.

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Sustainability Leadership: Linking Theory and Practice

Cited by 95 publications

References 15 publications

Science Mapping of the Knowledge Base on Sustainable Leadership, 1990–2018

Science Mapping of the Knowledge Base on Sustainable Leadership, 1990–2018

Theoretical Review on Sustainable Leadership (SL)

Leadership in sustainability planning: propagating visions through empathic communication

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