Citation
(2006), "Special Issue on Leadership and sustainability", Corporate Governance, Vol. 6 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/cg.2006.26806caa.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Special Issue on Leadership and sustainability
Due date: 1 November, 2006Guest Editor: Ellen Van Velsor, PhD, Center for Creative Leadership
Sustainability is an agenda that asks business organizations to pay equal attention to economic, social (CSR), and environmental factors, fully embracing the concepts of political, civil, social, economic, cultural, and human rights; advocating the premise that all human values depend on a healthy ecological, social, and economic context. While the above statement establishes the "what" of sustainability, it does little to inform leaders and organizations on "how" to effectively implement the "triple bottom line" of sustainability. Many organizations are finding leadership to be a challenge, in terms of developing workable strategies, redesigning organizational systems and processes, and/or forging required culture change. This special issue will focus on the unique challenges to leadership and organizational capacity when implementing broad strategies of sustainability or CSR principles specifically. Those aspects include, but would not be limited to, a focus on the developmental experiences of sustainabilily/CSR leaders, how leaders enact the tasks of leadership in organizations pursuing sustainability, what organizational systems and processes promote successful implementation of a sustainability/CSR agenda, and how organizations develop capacity to deal with sustainability processes and issues. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.
Submissions should be made in electronic format and should be sent in Word files as attachments to: vanvelsor@leadcrs.ccl.org
As a guide, articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length. Prospective authors are encouraged (but not required) to send an abstract or short proposal of their paper to the special issue editor by 1 August, 2006 and/or to contact the special issue editor to discuss their ideas.