Corporate Governance: Volume 9 Issue 1

Introduction: Leadership and corporate social responsibility

Ellen Van Velsor

The purpose of this Guest editorial is to introduce a much needed special issue on leadership and sustainability/CSR, and to provide a road‐map for readers as to focus and…

Developing leaders for sustainable business

Patricia Hind, Andrew Wilson, Gilbert Lenssen

The purpose of this paper is to explore how organisations can develop leaders who have the competences necessary to ensure the sustainability of the company. It considers how the…

Leading for sustainability: implementing the tasks of leadership

Laura Quinn, Maxine Dalton

The purpose of this paper is to expand the field of sustainability/corporate social responsibility research to include a focus on leadership. It aims to present an exploratory…

Leading corporate citizenship: governance, structure, systems

Guy Morgan, Kwang Ryu, Philip Mirvis

The purpose of this paper is to benchmark how 25 companies in five industries are addressing corporate citizenship through their governance, structures and systems. The paper aims…

CSR leaders road‐map

Nada K. Kakabadse, Andrew P. Kakabadse, Linda Lee‐Davies

The purpose of this paper is to outline how CSR can be effectively implemented and driven through the organisation. The emphasis of the paper is not on CSR definition but on the…

Improving sustainability in the financing of large infrastructure projects: what role for leaders?

Georg Caspary

The purpose of this paper is to compare the stringency of different types of public financing institutions' safeguard mechanisms in the financing of large dams in developing…

Wilh. Wilhelmsen Shipping Company: moving from CSR tradition to CSR leadership

Tonya R. Hargett, Marcia F. Williams

The purpose of this case study is to explore the depth of integration of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), defined as the triple bottom line (3BL), throughout the Wilh…

Sustainable leadership: management control systems and organizational culture in Novo Nordisk A/S

Mette Morsing, Dennis Oswald

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how top managers seek to provide the necessary leadership inside an organisation when sustainability is a primary strategic objective…