Examining Relationships Between Organic Leadership And Corporate Sustainability: A Proposed Model

Sooksan Kantabutra, Suparak Suriyankietkaew
2011 Journal of Applied Business Research  
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Much of the leadership literature indicates that organizations adopting the Organic leadership paradigm tend to respond to the environmental change more effectively than those adopting other leadership paradigms, therefore more sustainable.<span
more » ... style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, few published studies, if any, have specifically investigated the assumed relationship between Organic leadership and sustainability performance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Derived from the literature, a model expressing the relationships between Organic leadership characteristics and sustainability performance outcomes is proposed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The broad proposition is the more organizations adopting the Organic leadership characteristics, the better the sustainability performance outcomes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this paper, characteristics of Organic leadership such as shared vision and values, self-leading, self-managing, mutual sense-making are independent variables, while sustainability performance outcomes such as financial results, long-term shareholder value, customer satisfaction, brand and reputation are dependent variables. Relevant hypotheses and directions for testing them are also discussed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>
doi:10.19030/jabr.v28i1.6685 fatcat:kdpuxd74l5hb5ipvbvcq6v4lze