Read our July 2016 newsletter
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Research tidbits: Leadership’s effects on followers
A selection of interesting articles we found recently about leadership's effects on followers. When and why empowering leadership increases followers’ taking charge in China Drawing from the cultural self-representation model, the authors propose a multilevel model to examine when and why empowering leadership elicits followers’ taking charge behaviours in China. Data from 310 full-time employees in 81 work groups provide support for the mediating role of role breadth self-efficacy in transforming team-directed empowering leadership into individual [...]
Four days of inspiration at the ISL conference in Bangkok
At the end of May 2016, ISL held its 11th International Symposium on Sustainable Leadership in Bangkok, Thailand. […]
Research tidbits: Values in auditing and accounting
A selection of interesting articles we found recently about values in auditing and accounting. Exploring moral judgements among accounting and other business students In this exploratory paper, Margaret Andersen and her colleagues investigate the extension of Haidt’s (Psychol Rev 108(4):814–834, 2001, The righteous mind: Why good people are divided by politics and religion, 2012) Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), using the MFQ30 questionnaire, from a sample of the general public across many countries to a sample of business [...]
Sufficiency thinking book launch
On May 31 2016, ISL's new book, Sufficiency Thinking, on the Thai Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP), was launched at the start of ISL's 11th International Symposium on Sustainable Leadership, held in Bangkok, Thailand. The launch was a very successful, exciting and well-attended event, with a welcome speech from Dr. Chirayu Na Ayuthaya, Chairman of the Thailand Sustainable Development Foundation followed by keynote speeches from His Excellency Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, and Mr. Harald Link, [...]
Information for conference delegates
We are pleased to share the Conference Schedule and External Development Excursion Schedule with delegates to our International Symposium on Sustainable Leadership. Conference Schedule (pdf 398kb) External Development Excursion (417kb) We look forward to meeting you all very soon. For those attending the External Development Excursion, please meet at 13.30 on Sunday May 29 at the Lobby Lounge, Centara Grand at CentralWorld, 23rd floor. The Conference opens on Monday May 30 with registration and welcome cocktails at 17.30-19.00 at the Centara Grand [...]
Research tidbits: Women on top
A selection of interesting articles we found recently about women in managerial positions and the effect on company performance. […]
Research tidbits: Corporate moral behaviour
A selection of interesting articles we found recently about corporate moral behaviour. MNE subsidiaries’ strategic commitment to CSR in emerging economies Multinational enterprises (MNEs) venturing into emerging economies operate in relatively unfamiliar environments that, compared with their home countries, often display a high degree of administrative distance (i.e., differences in social rules, regulations, and governmental control and enforcement mechanisms). At the same time, many MNEs face the question of how intensely to commit to corporate social [...]
Research tidbits: Stakeholder perspectives
A selection of interesting articles we found recently about stakeholder perspectives. Is sustainable development biased towards humans as stakeholders? Environmental education scholars have hailed the emergence of the discourse of education for sustainable development (ESD) as a progressive transition in the field. The author argues that there are some salient aspects present in sustainability discourse that present ethical paradoxes as well as empirical dilemmas. Discourse on sustainable development singles out economic development, which might have created [...]
ISL’s new book is ready!
We have exciting news...yesterday we collected the advance copies of Sufficiency Thinking: Thailand’s Gift to an Unsustainable World, the new book ISL has edited. In the book, 20 Thai experts write chapters about how sufficiency thinking leads to effective outcomes for individuals, families, communities and enterprises of diverse sizes. Read more details on the book, and see how to purchase advance copies. Here we are receiving the book from Elizabeth Weiss, our publisher at Allen & Unwin. The [...]