Responsible Global Leadership: Dilemmas, Paradoxes, and Opportunities

The need to ensure principle-driven, legally sound, and ethically acceptable behavior in the global context is not an easy task for leaders. They face the requirement of meeting the needs and expectations of a diverse set of stakeholders. They are increasingly called upon to protect, preserve, and restore the resources of the environment. They are expected to improve human well-being and social equity and recognize and effectively address economic and social issues concerning equality, social justice, and human rights protection.

How should leaders in global organizations go about meeting the multiple demands of a complex global stakeholder environment? This book explores the dilemmas, paradoxes, and opportunities that leaders in global organizations of all types confront daily and addresses how managers can and should think about and approach these complex issues in responsible and productive ways.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars across business, management and the social sciences more broadly.

Mark E. Mendenhall holds the J. Burton Frierson Chair of Excellence in Business Leadership at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and is a past president of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management.

Milda Zilinskaite is a Senior Scientist at Vienna University of Economics and Business, and a Manager at the WU Center for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR).

Günter K. Stahl is Professor of International Management and Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainability Transformation and Responsibility (STaR) at the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Rachel Clapp-Smith is a Professor of Leadership in the College of Business, Chair of the Managerial Studies Department, and Academic Director of the Leadership Institute at Purdue University Northwest.