The Competitive Edge of Moral Leadership

From: International Management Review | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Becker, Gerhold K | Copyright information

[Abstract]

Exploring the moral dimensions of leadership in business, the paper starts from the assumption that business does not operate in an amoral space and that business decisions are not exclusively determined by economic factors of the market. Business leaders like human agents in general are not necessarily and exclusively self-interested but act within a moral culture shared with society and its basic institutions. It is argued that m oral leadership is leadership whose power a...

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