Inclusive leadership: Toward reshaping corporate purpose for sustainable development
Journal article
Uddin, M., Azmat, F and Fujimoto, Y 2024. Inclusive leadership: Toward reshaping corporate purpose for sustainable development. Leadership.
Authors | Uddin, M., Azmat, F and Fujimoto, Y |
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Abstract | This paper delves into the complex relationship between business leadership, sustainability, and inclusivity, representing a step towards developing a more inclusive leadership approach to sustainable development that fosters shared power relations between business leaders and marginalized members of society. With environmental and social conditions worsening, it is urgent that corporations move away from the neoliberal profit-maximization models advocated by Milton Friedman and instead prioritize humanity and the environment. This requires a fundamental restructuring of businesses to move beyond profit maximization and address societal power imbalances by including all stakeholders. Our inclusive leadership for sustainable development framework, rooted in symbolic interactionism, offers a holistic lens for including marginalized groups. At the microlevel, it focuses on business leaders' personas, characterized by pro-demographic diversity and biodiversity, cognitive complexity for sustainable development, and social empathy, that can potentially create macro-level impact. These characteristics accompanied by macro perspectives that focus on repurposing corporations away from neoliberalism towards sustainability, would be a step forward in cultivating shared power dynamics between business leaders and marginalized communities for the betterment of society. |
Keywords | Inclusive leadership; Power relations; Sustainability; Leadership; Sustainable devlelopment; Marginalized groups; Inequality; Anthropocene |
Year | 2024 |
Journal | Leadership |
Publisher | SAGE |
ISSN | 1742-7150 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 16 May 2024 |
Deposited | 21 May 2024 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | In press |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/97yw2/inclusive-leadership-toward-reshaping-corporate-purpose-for-sustainable-development
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License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 | ||
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