Religious Leaders and Entrepreneurs: Synthesizing Values-driven Leadership Approaches

Sheila Hanson, Ksenia Keplinger, Tobias Brügger, Guillaume Mercier, Sarah Pieslinger, Birgit Feldbauer-Durstmuller, Ksenia Keplinger, Caroline Preslmazer, Katja Rost, Johannes Thaller, Tanja Wolf

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Abstract

One of the concerns in modern organizations is ethics, where few institutions are unaffected by scandals or abuse of power. Thus, we look for inspiration in difficult times to offer leaders and managers strategies to mitigate or prevent ethical challenges. This symposium brings together various values-driven leadership approaches to managing organizations and offers both historical and modern leadership lessons. All of the papers stem from organizations rooted in religious values that perform entrepreneurial actions to survive, yet the organizations exist in diverse contexts. Two of the papers investigate leadership and power in Benedictine organizations that have a long-standing history in values-driven leadership and offer ideas how to implement the elements of authentic, ethical, and servant leadership over time. The other two papers study the influence of religious values on entrepreneurial actions in general and in the family business context in particular. We weave the four papers together to better understand how leaders and entrepreneurs incorporate their (religious) values into their leadership styles and adapt their management approaches to engage their stakeholders. Finally, we discuss practical implications of our findings in this symposium.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAcademy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
Volume2021
Issue number1
Number of pages1
ISSN0065-0668
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Jul 2021
Externally publishedYes
EventThe Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021: Bringing the Manager Back in Management - Online, Virtual, Online
Duration: 29 Jul 20214 Aug 2021
Conference number: 81
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ConferenceThe Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2021
Number81
LocationOnline
CityVirtual, Online
Period29/07/202104/08/2021
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