Rethinking Leadership

Preface

This book connects the topics of leadership, corporate social responsibility and business ethics/management ethics with the human centered paradigm. While there are many studies on how leadership, social responsibility and ethics impact corporate performance, the impact of leadership on people and society and the reciprocities therein have not been researched as thoroughly. The book aims to bridge this gap. It intends to answer questions about what motivates moral behavior, whether morality can be embedded in rules of the markets, how people-to-people relations are governed by leadership within and beyond organizational boundaries, how business ethics influence business processes, stakeholder relations and how knowledge is built and managed. ...