Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30685
Publication type: Book part
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Leadership ethics and organizational change : sketching the field's challenges
Authors: Patzer, Moritz
Voegtlin, Christian
et. al: No
DOI: 10.4324/9781003036395-3
10.21256/zhaw-30685
Published in: Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics
Editors of the parent work: Todnem, Rune
Burnes, Bernard
Hughes, Mark
Page(s): 11
Pages to: 29
Issue Date: Feb-2023
Publisher / Ed. Institution: Routledge
Publisher / Ed. Institution: London
ISBN: 9781003036395
Language: English
Subject (DDC): 170: Ethics
658.4: Executive Management
Abstract: This chapter addresses the link between leadership ethics and organizational change. Leadership ethics as the overarching label for questions on ethics, fairness, legitimacy, and sustainability in the context of leadership remains a fragmented field. Within it, we find a variety of competing and contradictory efforts that focus on different research foci of leadership's new challenges. In the chapter, we set out to outline the new challenges of globally responsible leadership at the onset of the 21st century and to critically discuss different perceptions of and approaches to ‘good leadership’. Globalization, new societal role, and ethical pluralism pose substantial challenges for a new understanding of leadership, especially in change processes. Furthermore, researchers and practitioners are faced with a research field that is characterized by a pluralism of different labels, research foci, and research methodologies. The divide between positivist and post-positivist approaches inhibits efforts for a comprehensive perception of what good leadership means for present and future businesses. By sketching these challenges of leadership ethics, we hope to foster the understanding of the characteristics of responsible global leadership and to improve the dialog between existing research strands within this emerging field.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/30685
Fulltext version: Accepted version
License (according to publishing contract): Licence according to publishing contract
Restricted until: 2025-07-28
Departement: School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit: Center for Corporate Responsibility (CCR)
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Patzer, M., & Voegtlin, C. (2023). Leadership ethics and organizational change : sketching the field’s challenges. In R. Todnem, B. Burnes, & M. Hughes (Eds.), Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics (pp. 11–29). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036395-3
Patzer, M. and Voegtlin, C. (2023) ‘Leadership ethics and organizational change : sketching the field’s challenges’, in R. Todnem, B. Burnes, and M. Hughes (eds) Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics. London: Routledge, pp. 11–29. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036395-3.
M. Patzer and C. Voegtlin, “Leadership ethics and organizational change : sketching the field’s challenges,” in Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics, R. Todnem, B. Burnes, and M. Hughes, Eds. London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 11–29. doi: 10.4324/9781003036395-3.
PATZER, Moritz und Christian VOEGTLIN, 2023. Leadership ethics and organizational change : sketching the field’s challenges. In: Rune TODNEM, Bernard BURNES und Mark HUGHES (Hrsg.), Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics. London: Routledge. S. 11–29. ISBN 9781003036395
Patzer, Moritz, and Christian Voegtlin. 2023. “Leadership Ethics and Organizational Change : Sketching the Field’s Challenges.” In Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics, edited by Rune Todnem, Bernard Burnes, and Mark Hughes, 11–29. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036395-3.
Patzer, Moritz, and Christian Voegtlin. “Leadership Ethics and Organizational Change : Sketching the Field’s Challenges.” Organizational Change, Leadership and Ethics, edited by Rune Todnem et al., Routledge, 2023, pp. 11–29, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036395-3.


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