Recent journal publications (peer reviewed)

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. (accepted). Business Leaders as Global Citizens. Journal of Business Ethics*, forthcoming 2009.

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/content/n6140x01827hh884

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. 2007. Understanding Responsible Leadership: Roles Identity and Motivational Drivers. Journal of Business Ethics, 74, 437-456.

Maak, T. 2007. Responsible Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement, and the Emergence of Social Capital. Journal of Business Ethics, 74, 329-343.

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. 2006. Responsible Leadership in a Stakeholder Society. A Relational Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 66, 99-115.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2005. Relational Intelligence for Leading Responsibly in a Connected World. In K.M. Weaver (Ed.), Best Paper Proceedings of the Sixty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Honolulu.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2004. Building an Inclusive Diversity Culture – Principles, Processes and Practice. Journal of Business Ethics, 54, 129-147.

Pless, N.M. 1999. Von der Dominanz zur Partnerschaft – Erfolgreiches Diversitätsmanagement erfordert einen Paradigmenwechsel. Die Unternehmung, 53(3), 159-175.

* The Journal of Business Ethics (JBE) is ranked by the Journal Citation Report among the top 100 business & management journals (#64); impact factor: 0.597. The JBE is also one of 18 selected international journals (a.o. ASQ, AMR, AMJ, HBR) that Business Week uses to assess the academic outcome for their business school rankings. It also counts for the Financial Times ranking.


Working papers

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

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

Selected books

Maak, T. & Ulrich P. 2007. Integre Unternehmensführung: Ethische Orientierungswissen für die Wirtschaftspraxis [Integrity Management]. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel. Max-Weber-Award of the "Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft", Cologne.

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. (Eds.) 2006. Responsible Leadership. London, New York: Routledge. Russian translation published by Alpina Business Books, Moscow 2008.
Book recommended by Harvard Business School (http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5320.html)
Reviews:
Harvard Business School, 5/8/2006, http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/5320.html
Brink, A. 2006. Forum Wirtschaftsethik, Vol. 14, No. 4, http://www.dnwe.de/forum/h2006/06_04_rez.htm

Ulrich, P. & Maak, T. (Eds) 2000. Die Wirtschaft in der Gesellschaft [Business in Society], Berne/Stuttgart/Vienna: Haupt, 2000 (lecture series with Horst Afheldt, Jürgen Habermas, Axel Honneth, Claus Offe and Richard Sennett).

Maak, T. 2000. Die Wirtschaft der Bürgergesellschaft [Market and Civil Society], Berne/Stuttgart/Vienna: Haupt, 1999.

Maak, T. & Lunau, Y. 1998/2000. Weltwirtschaftsethik. Globalisierung auf dem Prüfstand der Lebensdienlichkeit [Global Business Ethics], Berne/Stuttgart/Vienna: Haupt, 2nd ed.

Pless, N.M. 1998. Corporate Caretaking. Neue Wege der Gestaltung organisationaler Mitweltbeziehungen. Buchreihe: Theorie der Unternehmung, Marburg: Metropolis.

Recent book chapters

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. 2008. Responsible leadership in a globalized world: A cosmopolitan perspective. In: Scherer, A.G./Palazzo, G. (eds), Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 430-453.

Maak. T. & Pless, N.M. 2008. The leader as responsible change agent: Promoting humanism in and beyond business. In H. Spitzeck, W. Amann, u.a. (Eds.) Humanism in Business: Perspectives on the development of a responsible business world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. 2006. Introduction: The quest for responsible leadership in business. In Maak, T. & Pless, N. (Eds.), Responsible Leadership. London, New York: Routledge, 1-13.

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. 2006. Responsible leadership: A relational approach. In Maak, T. & Pless, N. (Eds.), Responsible Leadership. London, New York: Routledge, 33-53.

Pless, N.M. & Schneider, R. 2006. Towards developing responsible global leaders: The PwC Ulysses experience. In Maak, T. & Pless, N. (Eds.), Responsible Leadership. London, New York: Routledge, 213-126.
Reprinted in Werhane, P. & Hartman, L. (forthcoming). Effective practices of global corporations.

Maak, T. 2004. Die Aufnahme des Anderen in die moralische Welt. Anmerkungen zu den Grundlagen integrativer Wirtschaftsbürgerethik, in: Mieth, D., Schumann, O. & Ulrich, P. (ed.), Reflexionsfelder integrativer Wirtschaftsethik, Tübingen: Francke, 29-49.

Maak, T. 2000. Lebensdienliches Wirtschaften in einer Gesellschaft freier Bürger, in: Ulrich, P. & Maak, T. (eds.), Die Wirtschaft in der Gesellschaft, Bern, Stuttgart, Wien: Haupt, 11-34.

Research reports

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2006. Status report on developing responsible leadership. INSEAD-PwC research stream on Developing Responsible Leadership, May 2006, INSEAD.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2004. Ulysses - developing responsible leadership in high-performing organizations. Research outline, INSEAD-PwC research stream on Developing Responsible Leadership, May 2004, INSEAD.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2003. Ulysses - developing responsible leaders for sustainable business. Pre-Study for research cooperation in INSEAD-PwC research stream on Developing Responsible Leadership, December 2003, University of St. Gallen.

Interviews

CEO Magazine (forthcoming in December 2008). Trend Responsible Leadership: Relational Intelligence – How to create value with principles. Interview with Nicola Pless.

INSEAD Alumni Newsletter 2006. What is responsible leadership? Interview with Ralf Schneider and Nicola Pless. Accessible on http://www.insead.edu/alumni/newsletter/December2006/RalfSchneiderinterview.htm

PricewaterhouseCoopers 2006. Responsible leadership: An outside perspective: Nicola Pless and Thomas Maak discuss the development of responsible leaders. May 2006: 12-13.

Academic presentations (peer reviewed)

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T.
'Ethical Competence for Leading Responsibly: Toward a Definition and a Model.'
Paper presented at the 15th Annual International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, St. John's University, New York, NY, October 22-24.

'Business-in-Society-Competence for Leading Responsibly in a Global Business Environment.'
Paper presented at the 21st EBEN Annual Conference, Antalya, Turkey, October 17-19, 2008.

'Integrative leadership for the common good.'
Paper presented at the research conference of the Center for Integrative Leadership at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN , October 5-7, 2008.

'Responsible global leadership. A cosmopolitan perspective.'
Paper presented at the Sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA, Aug. 8-13, 2008.

'Developing responsible leaders as agents of world benefit: Learnings from 'Project Ulysses'.'
Paper presented at the Sixty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA, Aug. 8-13, 2008.

'Learning by doing good ?Y?N developing the next generation of responsible global leaders.'
Paper presentation at the Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, Aug. 3-8, 2007.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2006. Developing responsible leaders through transformational learning in cross-sector partnership - the Ulysses experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers, presented at the Global Forum "Business as an Agent of World Benefit" called by The Academy of Management, The United Nations Global Compact, Case Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland, Oct. 23-25, 2006.

Pless, N. M.  2006. Responsible leadership at the top: The case of Dame Anita Roddick, Founder of The Body Shop, featured in Global Online Forum "Business as an Agent of World Benefit" called by The Academy of Management, The United Nations Global Compact, Case Weatherhead School of Management, Cleveland, Oct. 23-25, 2006.

Pless, N.M. 2006. Understanding responsible leadership: Roles identity and motivational drivers, presented at the Annual Conference of the European Business Ethics Network, Vienna, Austria, September 21-23, 2006.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2006. Towards a relational theory of responsible leadership: Paradigmatic thoughts & ethical reflections, presented at the Sixty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Atlanta, Georgia, Aug. 11-16, 2006.

Pless, N.M. 2006. Service Learning in Executive Education ?Y?N Lessons from the PwC Ulysses program on Developing Responsible Global Leaders, presented at the International Conference on Executive Education at IMD in Lausanne, July 3-4, 2006.

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. 2006. Coming back changed - Developing responsible leaders for sustainable business, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Association for Business & Society (IABS), Mérida, Yucatan, México, March 23-26, 2006.

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. 2005. A Relational Perspective towards Responsible Leadership in Business, presentation at the Annual Meeting of the International Leadership Association, Amsterdam, November 2-6, 2005.

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. 2005. Responsible Leadership in a Stakeholder Society: A Relational Approach, presentation at the Annual Conference of the European Business Ethics Network, Bonn, Germany, September 22-24, 2005.

Maak, Th. & Pless, N.M. 2005. Responsible Leadership: A relational approach. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Business Ethics, Hawaii, August 4-8, 2005.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2005. Relational Intelligence for Leading Responsibly in a Connected World. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Hawaii, August 5-10, 2005.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2004. Act – Reflect – Connect. Linking Corporate Community Involvement to the Development of Responsible Leaders. Presentation at the 3rd ISBEE World Congress, Melbourne, Australia, July 16, 2004.

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2002. IncorporatingHumanity – The Founding Principles of a Diverse Culture of Inclusion. Paper presented and session chair at the 15th Annual Conference of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN), Brussels, Belgium August 28-29, 2002.