CHAPTER 5

Leaders and Business Sustainability

Chapter Objectives

  • Explain simple and practical overview of leadership styles and theories.
  • Understand the leader’s behavioral approach to business sustainability.
  • Provide proposed sustainability leader attributes.

The Leader’s Behavioral Approach to Business Sustainability

The sample used by Loewe et al. (2013) in their study was 102 SMEs which were all used for the qualitative analysis. The participants in the sample were asked about the main factors of SME upgrading in Egypt and the main reasons for differences in SME upgrading cases in Egypt. Figure 5.1. shows that the highest two factors pertain to company leader/owner attributes. This highlights the weight leaders in Egypt have in controlling ...

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