Relational leadership for strategic sustainability: practices and capabilities to advance the design and assessment of sustainable business models

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 140, Issue , 2017, Pages 189-204

  Kurucz, Elizabeth C ^a   Colbert, Barry A ^b   Lüdeke Freund, Florian ^c,d   Upward, Antony ^e   Willard, Bob ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^e Edward James Consulting Ltd   (Canada)

^f Sustainability Advantage   (Canada)

Author keywords

Future fit business benchmark; Integration; Relational leadership; Strategic sustainability; Strongly sustainable business model canvas

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; MEANING MAKINGS; ORGANIZATION MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY CONTRIBUTION; RELATIONAL LEADERSHIP; SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84966801160     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.03.087     Document Type: Article

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