Can business‐oriented managers be effective leaders for corporate sustainability? A study of integrative and instrumental logics

dc.contributor.authorJoseph, Jay
dc.contributor.authorOrlitzky, Marc
dc.contributor.authorGurd, Bruce
dc.contributor.authorBorland, Helen
dc.contributor.authorLindgreen, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-11T12:24:18Z
dc.date.issued2019-02
dc.description.abstractThis qualitative study investigates whether the views of managers need to be congruent with the corporate sustainability (CS) logics—either integrative or instrumental—of their employing organization. We assessed the CS performance of 25 organizations within the Australian forestry and wood products industry and analyzed the CS orientations of 32 senior managers within these companies to explore whether their individual CS views were consistent with organizational CS logics. The findings indicate that, in general, better performing organizations are led by managers that hold the integrative view, whereas poorer performing organizations are more likely to have managers with an instrumental view of CS. Nonetheless, there were noteworthy exceptions to this conclusion. The findings indicate that, under certain industry conditions, managers who hold an instrumental view may be able to generate ecological and social organizational outcomes that are at least equal to those produced by integrative managersen_ZA
dc.description.departmentGordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)en_ZA
dc.description.embargo2020-02-01
dc.description.librarianhj2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/bseen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationJoseph J, Orlitzky M, Gurd B, Borland H, Lindgreen A. Can business‐oriented managers be effective leaders for corporate sustainability? A study of integrative and instrumental logics. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2019;28:339–352.. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2238.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0964-4733 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1099-0836 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1002/bse.2238
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/68131
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherWileyen_ZA
dc.rights© 2018 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article : Can business‐oriented managers be effective leaders for corporate sustainability? A study of integrative and instrumental logics. Business Strategy and the Environment. vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 339-352, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2238. The definite version is available at : http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/bse.en_ZA
dc.subjectCorporate sustainabilityen_ZA
dc.subjectEnvironmental managementen_ZA
dc.subjectInstrumental viewen_ZA
dc.subjectIntegrative viewen_ZA
dc.subjectLeadershipen_ZA
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten_ZA
dc.titleCan business‐oriented managers be effective leaders for corporate sustainability? A study of integrative and instrumental logicsen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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