Leadership as stewardship : honouring our past while ensuring our future / Marian Iszatt-White (Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Lancaster University Management School, UK).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iszatt-White, Marian, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

New horizons in leadership studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership--Research.

Leadership.

Forecasting--Study and teaching.

Forecasting.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"Exploring different understandings of stewardship across a range of research domains and cultures, this insightful book examines the tensions between competing perspectives and their implications for leadership. Marian Iszatt-White proposes 'leadership-as-stewardship' as a new signifier for leadership research, providing practical guidance to leaders navigating the challenges and trade-offs of the Anthropocene. Leadership as Stewardship identifies how the apparent inadequacy of modern leadership coincides with a shift in scholarship away from practical inquiry and towards a range of aspirational approaches, including authentic, sustainable, responsible and ethical. Iszatt-White proposes stewardship as an alternative to these aspirational forms of leadership and challenges the ability of Western, Enlightenment-based thinking to solve global issues created by that same thinking. The book concludes that it is time to place the more enact-able construct of stewardship at the heart of leadership aspirations and scholarly activities. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will be vital for scholars of leadership, management and organization studies. Highlighting the ability of stewardship to combat perceived failings in leadership as both a construct and a practice, it is also valuable to policymakers, management educators and leadership practitioners"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction: Why stewardship?

2. What's wrong with the enlightenment?

3. Stewardship across different research domains: Getting to a core understanding

4. Tensions and questions

5. A return to relational ontologies: What's old is new again

6. Corporate biosphere stewardship with jan bebbington, director of the pentland centre for sustainability in business, lancaster university management school

7. Conclusion: Quo vadis, stewardship?

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781035319428 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.