Responsible leadership is one of the key topics in global business. This website provides you with information about academic activities and outcomes in the area of responsible leadership. While there is a lot of literature available on leadership, little is known about responsible leadership. Therefore our objective is to contribute to the creation of knowledge in this domain guided by the following questions:

NEWS

Dec. 2008: Dr. Nicola Pless talks in an interview with the CEO Magazine about the concept of responsible leadership and its practical implications.

Oct. 2008: Dr. Thomas Maak has been elected to serve on the Board of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Business, Ethics and Economics for the term of 2009-2012.

June 2008: A Russian translation (Alpina Business Books, 2008) of the book on "Responsible Leadership" (Routledge, 2006) has been launched in Moscow during the first International Roundtable on "Responsible Leadership" hosted by the global CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr.

May 2008: Dr. Thomas Maak received the Max-Weber-Award 2008 from the "Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft", Cologne for the comprehensive handbook on "Integre Unternehmensführung" ('Responsible Corporate Management'; with P. Ulrich). The award was presented in a ceremony in the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in the presence of German President Horst Köhler. (see photo below)


New Publications 2008

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2008 (in print). Responsible Leaders as Agents of World Benefit: Learnings from "Project Ulysses". Journal of Business Ethics.
Accessible as electronic Online First article: www.springerlink.com/

Maak, T. 2008. Undivided Corporate Responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics.Vol. 82, 353-368.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2008. Responsible Leadership. Verantwortliche Führung im Kontext einer globalen Stakeholdergesellschaft. [Responsible Leadership in the context of a global stakeholder society] Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik, 9(2).

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2008. Business-in-Society Competence for Leading Responsibly in a Global Environment. INSEAD Faculty & Research Working Paper, 2008/22/OB.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2008. Responsible Leaders as Agents of World Benefit: Learnings from PwC's "Project Ulysses". INSEAD Faculty & Research Working Paper, 2008/09/OB



Max-Weber-Award 2008