Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Responsible Leadership Systems

An Empirical Analysis of Integrating Corporate Responsibility into Leadership Systems

  • Book
  • © 2010

Overview

Authors:
  1. Erik G. Hansen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVIII
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Point of Departure

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 1-2

    2. Research Gap and Research Objective

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 3-4

    3. Outline of Thesis

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 5-5

  3. Foundations of Corporate Responsibility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
      Download chapter PDF

    2. An Introduction to Corporate Responsibility

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 8-27

    3. Motivation for CR

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 28-39

    4. Organisational Learning for CR

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 40-42

    5. Summary of Part I

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 43-43

  4. Towards a Responsible Leadership Systems Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
      Download chapter PDF

    2. The Interface of CR, Leadership, and Organisational Culture

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 46-55

    3. Core Fields of the RLS Framework

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 56-128

    4. Contextual Fields of the RLS Framework

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 129-151

    5. Summary of Part II

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 152-154

  5. Responsible Leadership Systems in Multinational Corporations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Method

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 156-167

    3. Results

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 168-232

    4. Discussion

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 233-245

  6. Summary and Outlook

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Summary and Major Findings

      • Erik G. Hansen
      Pages 248-250
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Not all managers in multinational corporations can be exceptional leaders. Hence, corporations provide their managers with a broad set of instruments, methods and tools to support them in achieving outstanding leadership. These instruments stem from various functions like human resources, controlling, corporate communication, strategic management, and knowledge management and present the building blocks of so called leadership systems. A key question is how leadership systems can be aligned with corporate strategy to reach “leadership excellence” — a question that has been subject to empirical research in the recent years. In 2003, a study at my institute at Technische Universität München has shown that most leadership systems are indeed “excellent” in the way they are derived from the overarching corporate strategy; however, the results have also indicated that leadership systems have only weak ties to topics such as values, ethics, and social responsibilities. The major ethical and environmental crises which many of the multinational corporations have been facing motivated the author to revisit the topic of leadership systems. He roots his understanding in new management concepts such as corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate sustainability and, more generally, corporate responsibility (CR) and has argued that leadership systems need to go beyond purely economic aspects to also integrate social and environmental aspects. Such a holistic leadership system, the author terms “Responsible Leadership System”. In 2007, the author designed an empirical study labelled “CSR Leadership Study”, whose results are at the core of the present research.

About the author

Dr. Erik G. Hansen gained his doctoral degree at the Institute for Information, Organization and Management of Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c. Ralf Reichwald at Technische Universität München.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Responsible Leadership Systems

  • Book Subtitle: An Empirical Analysis of Integrating Corporate Responsibility into Leadership Systems

  • Authors: Erik G. Hansen

  • Series Title: Markt- und Unternehmensentwicklung Markets and Organisations

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-8675-7

  • Publisher: Gabler Verlag Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8349-2386-8Published: 27 May 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-8349-8675-7Published: 16 August 2010

  • Series ISSN: 2945-879X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-8803

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 325

  • Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation