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Contents
List of editors and contributors ix
PART I SETTING THE STAGE
1 Mapping the emerging field of responsible management: domains,
spheres, themes, and future research 2
Oliver Laasch, Roy Suddaby, R. Edward Freeman and Dima Jamali
2 Can management ever be responsible? Alternative organizing and the
three irresponsibilities of management 40
Kiri Langmead, Chris Land and Daniel King
3 What ‘are’ responsible management? A conceptual potluck 56
Archie B. Carroll, Nancy J. Adler, Henry Mintzberg, François Cooren, Roy
Suddaby, R. Edward Freeman and Oliver Laasch
PART II ICONIC VIEWS
4 Mintzberg on (ir)responsible management 73
Henry Mintzberg and Oliver Laasch
5 From managerial responsibility to CSR and back to responsible management 84
Archie B. Carroll and Oliver Laasch
6 Responsible management as re-enchantment and retrovation 91
Roy Suddaby and Oliver Laasch
7 Responsible leadership and management: key distinctions and shared concerns 100
Nancy J. Adler and Oliver Laasch
8 From ‘management sucks’ to ‘responsible management rocks!’ 113
R.Edward Freeman and Oliver Laasch
PART III MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS
9 Sustainability management from a responsible management perspective 122
Markus Beckmann, Stefan Schaltegger and Nancy E. Landrum
10 Responsible leadership and/versus responsible management 138
Tânia M. G. Marques and Jorge F. S. Gomes
11 Ethics management and ethical management: mapping criteria and
interventions to support responsible management practice 155
Mihaela Constantinescu and Muel Kaptein
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12 Responsible governance: broadening the corporate governance discourse
to include positive duties and collective action 175
Rob van Tulder and Eveline van Mil
13 Humanistic management as integrally responsible management? 195
Michael Pirson
14 Bioinspiration as a guide for responsible management 212
Taryn L. Mead and Nancy E. Landrum
PART IV GLOCAL AND SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVES
15 The United Nations Global Compact and the Sustainable Development Goals 228
Andreas Rasche
16 The multinational perspective on responsible management: managing
risk-responsibility trade-offs across borders 242
Rob van Tulder
17 Responsible management: an Indigenous perspective 260
Jason Paul Mika, Rick Colbourne and Shamika Almeida
18 Islamic perspective of responsible management 277
Yusuf Sidani
19 Catholic social teaching and responsible management 292
Domènec Melé
20 Responsible management with Chinese characteristics 304
Pingping Fu, Qing Qu, Bo Yang and Huihua Jiang
21 The Japanese perspective on responsible management 318
Naoki Kuriyama
22 Responsible managers for the common good: African (Igbo and Yoruba)
perspectives on responsible management 332
Kemi Ogunyemi and Ogechi Obiorah
23 “Honorable merchant” and “handshake quality”: interpretations of
individually responsible leadership 345
Stéphanie Looser and Joachim Schwalbach
24 American pragmatism and responsible management: the role of John Dewey 364
Svetlana N. Dmitrieva, R. Edward Freeman and Sergiy D. Dmytriyev
PART V CONCEPTUALIZING PROCESS AND PRACTICES
25 Corporate social responsibility at the individual level of analysis:
research findings that inform responsible management “in the wild” 375
Chelsea R. Willness, David A. Jones, Nicole Strah and Deborah E. Rupp
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26 Enacting responsible management: a practice-based perspective 392
Oriana Milani Price, Silvia Gherardi and Marie Manidis
27 Beauty of responsible management: the lens and methodology of
organizational aesthetics 410
Antonio Strati
28 The emerging logic of responsible management: institutional pluralism,
leadership, and strategizing 420
Nevena Radoynovska, William Ocasio and Oliver Laasch
29 Responsible management of sustainability tensions: a paradoxical
approach to grand challenges 438
Connie Van der Byl, Natalie Slawinski and Tobias Hahn
30 Consensus vs. dissensus: the communicative constitution of responsible
management 453
Dennis Schoeneborn, Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich and François Cooren
31 Managing the past responsibly: a collective memory perspective on
responsibility, sustainability and ethics 470
Sébastien Mena and Jukka Rintamäki
PART VI LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
32 Responsible managers’ workplace learning 485
Olga Andrianova and Elena Antonacopoulou
33 Responsible management unlearning 501
Tali Padan and Nhien Nguyen
34 Differentiating CSR managers’ roles and competencies: taking conflicts
as a starting point 516
Renate Wesselink and Eghe R. Osagie
35 Giving voice to values: responsible management as facilitation of ethical voice 532
Carsten Tams and Mary C. Gentile
36 A strength-based approach to responsible management: professional
moral courage and moral competency 549
Leslie E. Sekerka
37 The dynamics of responsible careers and their impact on societal issues:
a conceptual framework 565
Svenja Tams
PART VII INNOVATION AND CHANGE
38 Responsible job crafting 583
Lorenzo Bizzi
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39 Whistleblowing as a crucial practice for responsible management 594
Luca Carollo, Simone Pulcher and Marco Guerci
40 Responsible management of innovation in business 606
Thomas B. Long, Edurne Iñigo and Vincent Blok
41 Social innovation: specifying pathways for impact 624
Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair
42 Innovating business models for sustainability: an essential practice for
responsible managers 640
Steve Kennedy and Nancy Bocken
43 Institutional work and (ir)responsible management 654
Lauren McCarthy and Sébastien Mena
44 Memes, transformational change, and responsible leadership 670
Sandra Waddock
PART VIII ENGAGED RESEARCH
45 Critically responsible management: agonistic answers to antagonistic questions 686
Marton Racz and Simon Parker
46 Realizing the critical performative potential of responsible organizational
research through participant action research 700
Kiri Langmead and Daniel King
47 Inquiring into change and innovation for greater responsibility through
an appreciative inquiry lens 715
‘Alim J. Beveridge, Lindsey Godwin and Ignacio Pavez
48 Creating standards for responsible translation of management research
for practitioners 729
Isabelle Yi Ren and Jean M. Bartunek
49 Using the past responsibly: what responsible managers and management
academics can learn from historians’ professional ethics 745
Christian Stutz and Judith Schrempf-Stirling
Index 759
Editors and contributors
EDITORS
Oliver Laasch is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of
Manchester and holds visiting positions at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, the
University of Tübingen’s Global Ethic Institute, and is a Governing Responsible Business
Research Fellow at Copenhagen Business School. Oliver has lead-authored the United Nations
Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative’s first official textbook
Principles of Responsible Management (translated to Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and avail-
able in an Indian edition). He has edited two inspirational guides of the PRME and 27 books
as editor of the PRME/BEP book collection. Oliver is founder of the Center for Responsible
Management Education (http://r esponsiblemanagement. net/ ) as well as co-convener of the
Responsible Management Education in Action workshop series delivered at the Academy of
Management (AOM) (annually since 2014), which won the AOM Management Education
and Development division’s best PDW award in 2014. In 2016, the paper ‘Income inequality:
Value flow analysis, market narratives, and organizational practice’ co-authored by Oliver,
won the best paper award of the Academy of Management Social Issues in Management
Division. Oliver is currently lead-editing the Journal of Business Ethics Special Issue on
Responsible Management Learning, runs the Coursera MOOC Managing Responsibly and
serves on the editorial board of Academy of Management Learning and Education. He holds
a PhD in management and innovation from the University of Manchester.
Roy Suddaby is an influential and top-cited business scholar with a passion for organiza-
tional research and teaching. Roy serves as the Francis G. Winspear Chair at the University
of Victoria, is the Chair in Organization Theory at the University of Liverpool Management
School and an honorary professor at Copenhagen Business School.
Roy’s current research seeks to understand how corporations are adapting to changing
global norms and expectations. His research focuses on organizational change and where
it intersects with business and society. His current research examines the changing role of
the multi-national corporation. He is interested in understanding the various ways in which
corporations mimic the function and role of the nation state – that is, corporate art collections,
corporate history and museums, corporate universities and corporate social responsibility. His
goal is to the find the justification for this behaviour, which goes beyond the financial bottom
line and into organizational intangibles such as establishing meaning, values and culture.
Roy is the outgoing editor of the Academy of Management Review and has served as editor
or guest editor for several journals. His research can be found in numerous academic journals,
including the Administrative Sciences Quarterly, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal
of Management Studies, and the Academy of Management Journal. He has won best paper
awards from the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the
Administrative Sciences Association of Canada as well as the Greif Research Impact Award
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from the Academy of Management. Roy is a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award by
the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada.
R. Edward Freeman is University Professor, Elis and Signe Olsson Professor, Academic
Director of the Institute for Business in Society, and Senior Fellow of the Olsson Center for
Applied Ethics at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. He is best known for
his award-winning book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Pitman, 1984; and
reprinted by Cambridge University Press in 2010). His latest books are Responsible Business,
with Bidhan Parmar and Kirsten Martin, forthcoming from Columbia University Press in
2020; The Cambridge Handbook of Stakeholder Theory with Jeffrey Harrison, Jay Barney
and Robert Phillips, Cambridge University Press in 2019; Research Approaches to Business
Ethics and Corporate Responsibility with Patricia Werhane and Sergiy Dmytriyev, Cambridge
University Press in 2017, and Bridging the Values Gap with Ellen Auster and Barrett Koehler
in 2015. He has received six honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from: Radboud
University in the Netherlands; Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Spain; the Hanken School
of Economics, and Tampere University in Finland; Sherbrooke University in Canada; and,
Leuphana University in Germany, for his work on stakeholder theory and business ethics.
Freeman is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Business Ethics, one of the leading journals
in business ethics. He is a lifelong student of philosophy, martial arts and the blues. Freeman
is a founding member of Red Goat Records (redgoatrecords.com) bringing the joy of original
soul and rhythm and blues music into the twenty-first century.
Dima Jamali is Professor in the Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut
(AUB) and currently holding the Kamal Shair Chair in Responsible Leadership and serving as
Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. She has a PhD in Social Policy and
Administration, from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Her research and teaching
revolve primarily around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Social Entrepreneurship
(SE). She is the author and editor of four books (CSR in the Middle East – Palgrave, 2012;
Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East – Palgrave, 2015; Development Oriented CSR –
Greenleaf, 2015; and Comparative Perspectives on Global Corporate Social Responsibility
–IGI, 2016), and over 80 high-level international publications, focusing on various aspects of
sustainability and sustainable development and CSR in developing countries in general and
in the Middle East specifically. She is the winner of the 2016 National Council for Scientific
Research Excellence Award, and the 2015 Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer Award, dubbed by
the Financial Times as ‘the Oscars of the Business School World’ for pioneering faculty who
are at the cutting edge of teaching and scholarship in their field. She was also designated as
Personality of the Year for CSR by the Arab Organization for Social Responsibility in 2015.
She is winner of the 2010 Shoman Prize for best young Arab researcher, which recognizes
distinctive scientific works addressing priority issues at the local, regional and international
levels. In 2013, Dr Jamali was selected for the Eisenhower Fellows Program, joining a global
network of leading professionals committed to collaborate for a more prosperous, just and
peaceful world; she was also selected in 2007 for the British Academy of Management
Fellowship for South Asia and the Middle East which supports exceptional scholars from the
Middle East. Since late 2017, Dr Jamali has been a member of the Lebanese Parliament.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Nancy J. Adler, McGill University, Canada
Shamika Almeida, University of Wollongong, Australia
Olga Andrianova, University of Exeter, UK
Elena Antonacopoulou, University of Liverpool, UK
Jean M. Bartunek, Boston College, UK
Markus Beckmann, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
‘Alim J. Beveridge, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Lorenzo Bizzi, California State University Fullerton, USA
Vincent Blok, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Nancy Bocken, Lund University, Sweden
Luca Carollo, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
Archie B. Carroll, University of Georgia, USA
Rick Colbourne, Carleton University, Canada
Mihaela Constantinescu, ICUB and CCEA, University of Bucharest, Romania
François Cooren, Université de Montreal, Canada
Svetlana N. Dmitrieva, University of Virginia, USA
Sergiyi D. Dmytriyev, James Madison University, USA
Pingping Fu, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Mary C. Gentile, University of Virginia, USA
Silvia Gherardi, University of Trento, Italy
Lindsey Godwin, Champlain College, USA
Jorge F. S. Gomes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Marco Guerci, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Tobias Hahn, ESADE Business School, Spain
Edurne Iñigo, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Huihua Jiang, Zhejang Shuren University, China
David A. Jones, University of Vermont, USA
Muel Kaptein, Erasmus University, the Netherlands
Steve Kennedy, Erasmus University, the Netherlands
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Daniel King, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Naoki Kuriyama, Soka University, Japan
Chris Land, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Nancy E. Landrum, Loyola University, Chicago, USA
Kiri Langmead, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Thomas B. Long, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Stéphanie Looser, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland, and
University of Surrey, UK
Johanna Mair, Hertie School of Governance, Germany, and Stanford University, USA
Marie Manidis, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Tânia M. G. Marques, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Lauren McCarthy, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Taryn L. Mead, Western Colorado University, USA
Domènec Melé, University of London, UK
Sébastien Mena, City, University of London, UK
Jason Paul Mika, Massey University, New Zealand
Henry Mintzberg, McGill University, Canada
Nhien Nguyen, Nordland Research Institute, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, Norway
Ogechi Obiorah, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria
William Ocasio, Northwestern University, USA
Kemi Ogunyemi, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria
Eghe R. Osagie, HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands
Tali Padan, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Simon Parker, University of Nottingham, UK
Ignacio Pavez, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
Michael Pirson, Fordham University, USA
Oriana Milani Price, University of Wollongong, Australia
Simone Pulcher, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Qing Qu, Tsinghua University, China
Marton Racz, City, University of London, UK, and International Business School Budapest,
Hungary
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Nevena Radoynovska, Emlyon Business School, France
Andreas Rasche, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Stockholm School of
Economics, Sweden
Jukka Rintamäki, Loughborough University, London, UK
Deborah E. Rupp, George Mason University, USA
Stefan Schaltegger, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Dennis Schoeneborn, Copenhagen Business School & Leuphana University Lüneburg
Judith Schrempf-Stirling, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Joachim Schwalbach, Humboldt University, Berlin
Christian Seelos, Stanford University, USA
Leslie E. Sekerka, Menlo College, USA
Yusuf Sidani, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Natalie Slawinski, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Nicole Strah, Purdue University, USA
Antonio Strati, University of Trento, Italy, and i3-CRG, IP Paris
Christian Stutz, University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich,
Switzerland
Carsten Tams, Emagence, USA
Svenja Tams, SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
Connie Van der Byl, Mount Royal University, Canada
Eveline van Mil, Erasmus University, the Netherlands
Rob van Tulder, Erasmus University, the Netherlands
Sandra Waddock, Boston College, USA
Renate Wesselink, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
Chelsea R. Willness, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Bo Yang, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Isabelle Yi Ren, Adelphi University, USA
