Recent journal publications (peer reviewed)

Maak, T. 2007 (forthcoming in September). Responsible Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement, and the Emergence of Social Capital. Journal of Business Ethics.

Pless, N.M. 2007. Understanding Responsible Leadership: Roles Identity and Motivational Drivers. Journal of Business Ethics (accepted and scheduled for publication in May 2007).

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. 2006. Responsible Leadership in a Stakeholder Society. A Relational Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 66, 1.

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

Selected books

Maak, T. & Ulrich P. 2007 (forthcoming in September). Integre Unternehmensführung: Ethische Orientierungswissen für die Wirtschaftspraxis [Integrity Management]. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel.

Maak, T. & Pless, N.M. (Eds.) 2006. Responsible Leadership. London, New York: Routledge.

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 (forthcoming). The Leader as Responsible Change Agent. In H. Spitzeck, W. Amann, u.a. (Eds.) Humanism in Business - State of the art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pless, N.M. 2007 (forthcoming in September). Human Relations: Die Gestaltung von Humanbeziehungen im Unternehmen. In Maak, T. & Ulrich, P. Integre Unternehmensführung (Integrity Management). Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschel

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, Th., and N.M. Pless 2006. Responsible Leadership: A Relational Approach.In Maak, T. & Pless, N. (Eds.),Responsible Leadership. London, New York: Routledge, 33-53. [link]

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. [link]

Best papers on academic conferences

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. & 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.

Academic presentations (peer reviewed)

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2007. Learning by doing good - developing the next generation of responsible global leaders, accepted for presentation at the Sixty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA, 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 „Ÿ 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.

Other academic presentations and panels

Pless, N.M. 2006. Responsible Leadership: The Ulysses Project, invited presentation at the INSEAD Alumni Sustainability conference, Fontainebleau, March 9-10, 2006

Pless, N.M. & Maak, T. 2004. Developing Responsible Global Leaders – The Ulysses Journey. Host of research panel, 3rd ISBEE World Congress, Melbourne, Australia, July 17, 2004.

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