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Research tidbits: Influencers on sustainable behaviour

A selection of interesting articles we found recently looking at influencers on sustainable behaviour. What drives/prevents green and non-green consumers? This study aims to analyse what drives and prevents the purchasing of eco-friendly products across different consumer groups and develops a conceptual model embracing the positive altruistic (care for the environmental consequences of purchasing), positive ego-centric (green self-identity and moral obligation), and negative ego-centric (perceived personal inconvenience of purchasing eco-friendly products) antecedents of eco-friendly product purchase [...]

2020-08-25T14:09:50+10:00July 19th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|
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Research tidbits: Corporate fraud

A selection of interesting articles we found recently about corporate fraud. Good apples, bad apples among Chinese companies traded in the US Committing financial fraud is a serious breach of business ethics. However, there are few large scale studies of financial fraud, which involve ethical considerations. In this study, we investigate the pervasive financial scandals, which by the end of 2012 involved more than a third of the US-listed Chinese companies. Based on a sample [...]

2020-08-25T14:09:51+10:00July 12th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|
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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 [...]

2020-08-25T14:09:56+10:00July 5th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|
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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 [...]

2020-08-25T14:09:58+10:00June 28th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|
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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, [...]

2020-08-25T14:09:59+10:00June 21st, 2016|Conferences, News, Publications|
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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 [...]

2016-05-26T15:55:23+10:00May 26th, 2016|News|
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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 [...]

2020-08-25T14:10:01+10:00May 10th, 2016|News, Research Tidbits|
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