nach oben

Journal of Business Ethics

Erschienen in:

01.04.2012

Identity Talk of Aspirational Ethical Leaders

verfasst von: Juliette Koning, Jeff Waistell

Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics | Ausgabe 1/2012

Einloggen

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config

KI-gestützte Suche

Aus

Abstract

This study investigates how business leaders dynamically narrate their aspirational ethical leadership identities. In doing so, it furthers understanding of ethical leadership as a process situated in time and place. The analysis focuses on the discursive strategies used to narrate identity and ethics by ethnic Chinese business leaders in Indonesia after their conversion to Pentecostal–charismatic Christianity. By exploring the use of metaphor, our study shows how these business leaders discursively deconstruct their ‘old’ identities and construct their ‘new’ aspirational identities as ethical leaders. This leads to the following contributions. First, we show that ethical leadership is constructed in identity talk as the business leaders actively narrate aspirational identities. Second, the identity narratives of the business leaders suggest that ethical leadership is a context-bound and situated claim vis-à-vis unethical practice. Third, we propose a conceptual template, identifying processes of realisation and inspiration followed by significant shifts in understanding, for the study of aspirational ethical leadership.

Vorheriger Artikel Leader Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations: Strategies for Sensemaking

Nächster Artikel (Un)Ethical Leadership and Identity: What Did We Learn and Where Do We Go from Here?

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 102.000 Bücher
über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Automobil + Motoren
Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

über 67.000 Bücher
über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

Bauwesen + Immobilien
Business IT + Informatik
Finance + Banking
Management + Führung
Marketing + Vertrieb
Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Alford, H. (2010). The practical wisdom of personalism. Journal of Management Development, 29(7/8), 697–705.CrossRef

Alvesson, M., & Willmott, H. (2002). Producing the appropriate individual: Identity regulation as organizational control. Journal of Management Studies, 39(5), 619–644.CrossRef

Avey, J. B., Palanski, M. E., & Walumbwa, F. O. (2011). When leadership goes unnoticed: The moderating role of follower self-esteem on the relationship between ethical leadership and follower behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 98(4), 573–582.CrossRef

Berger, P. L., & Luckmann, T. (1967). The social construction of reality: A treatise in the sociology of knowledge. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

Bluedorn, A. C., & Jaussi, K. S. (2008). Leaders, followers, and time. The Leadership Quarterly, 19(6), 654–668.CrossRef

Brazier, R. (2006, April 26). In Indonesia, the Chinese go to Church. International Herald Tribune Thursday.

Brown, A. D. (2006). A narrative approach to collective identities. Journal of Management Studies, 43(4), 731–753.CrossRef

Brown, M. E., & Mitchell, M. S. (2010). Ethical and unethical leadership: Exploring new avenues for future research. Business Ethics Quarterly, 20(4), 583–616.

Brown, M. E., & Trevino, L. K. (2006). Ethical leadership: A review and future directions. The Leadership Quarterly, 17(6), 595–616.CrossRef

Brown, M. E., Trevino, L. K., & Harrison, D. A. (2005). Ethical leadership: A social learning perspective for construct development and testing. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 97(92), 117–134.CrossRef

Brubaker, R., & Cooper, F. (2000). Beyond ‘identity’. Theory and Society, 29, 1–47.CrossRef

Burgess, S. M., & van der Maas, E. M. (Eds.). (2002). The new international dictionary of Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Carroll, B., & Levy, L. (2010). Leadership development as identity construction. Management Communication Quarterly, 24(2), 211–231.CrossRef

Chia, R. (1996). Metaphors and metaphorisation in organisational analysis: Thinking beyond the thinkable. In D. Grant & C. Oswick (Eds.), Metaphor and organisations (pp. 127–145). London: SAGE.

Clarke, C. A., Brown, A. D., & Hailey, V. H. (2009). Working identities? Antagonistic discursive resources and managerial identity. Human Relations, 62(3), 323–352.CrossRef

Coleman, S. (2003). Continuous conversion? The rhetoric, practice and rhetorical practice of charismatic protestant conversion. In A. Buckser & S. D. Glazier (Eds.), The anthropology of religious conversion (pp. 15–28). Lanham: Rowan and Littlefield.

Corten, A., & Marshall-Fratani, R. (2001). Introduction. In A. Corten & R. Marhsall-Fratani (Eds.), Between Babel and Pentecost, transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America (pp. 1–12). London: Hurst and Company.

Cunliffe, A. L. (2009). The philosopher leader: On relationalism, ethics and reflexivity—a critical perspective to teaching leadership. Management Learning, 40(1), 87–101.CrossRef

Cunliffe, A. L., & Eriksen, M. (2011). Relational leadership. Human Relations, 64(11), 1425–1449.CrossRef

Dahles, H. (2004). McBusiness versus confucius? Anthropological perspectives on transnational organizations and networks. Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit.

Day, D. V., & Harrison, M. M. (2007). A multilevel, identity-based approach to leadership development. Human Resource Management Review, 17, 360–373.CrossRef

Denzin, N. K. (1989). Interpretive biography. London: SAGE.

Eubanks, D., Brown, A. D., & Ybema, S. (2012). Leadership, identity and ethics. Journal of Business Ethics. doi:10.1007/s10551-012-1295-5.

Fairhurst, G. T. (2009). Considering context in discursive leadership research. Human Relations, 62(11), 1607–1633.CrossRef

Fiol, C. M. (2002). Capitalizing on paradox: The role of language in transforming organizational identities. Organization Science, 13(6), 653–666.CrossRef

Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society. Outline of the theory of structuration. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Giddens, A. (1991). Modernity and self-identity. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Harshman, C., & Harshman, E. (2008). The Gordian knot of ethics: Understanding leadership effectiveness and ethical behavior. Journal of Business Ethics, 78(1–2), 175–192.CrossRef

Karp, T., & Helgø, T. I. T. (2009). Leadership as identity construction: The act of leading people in organisations: A perspective from the complexity sciences. Journal of Management Development, 28(10), 880–896.CrossRef

King, J. E, Jr. (2008). (Dis)missing the obvious: Will mainstream management research ever take religion seriously? Journal of Management Inquiry, 17(3), 214–224.CrossRef

Knights, D., & O’Leary, M. (2006). Leadership, ethics and responsibility to the other. Journal of Business Ethics, 67(2), 125–137.CrossRef

Koning, J. (2009). Singing yourself into existence; Chinese Indonesian entrepreneurs, Pentecostal–charismatic Christianity, and the Indonesian nation state. In J. Bautista & F. Lim Khek Gee (Eds.), Christianity and the state in Asia. Complicity and conflict (pp. 115–131). London: Routledge.

Koning, J. (2011). Business, belief and belonging: Small business owners and conversion to charismatic Christianity. In M. Dieleman, J. Koning, & P. Post (Eds.), Chinese Indonesians and regime change (pp. 23–46). Boston: Brill.

Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lawler, J. (2005). The essence of leadership? Existentialism and leadership. Leadership, 1(2), 215–231.CrossRef

Lieblich, A., Tuval-Mashiach, R., & Zilber, T. (1998). Narrative research: Reading, analysis and interpretation. London: SAGE.

McAdams, D. (1996). Personality, modernity, and the storied self: A contemporary framework for studying persons. Psychological Inquiry, 7, 295–321.CrossRef

Morgan, G. (1993). Imaginization. London: SAGE.

Ortony, A. (1975). Why metaphors are necessary and not just nice. Educational Theory, 25, 45–53.CrossRef

Pentland, B. T. (1999). Building process theory with narrative: From description to explanation. Academy of Management Review, 24(4), 711–724.

Plummer, K. (2001). Documents of life 2. An invitation to a critical humanism. London: SAGE.

Pondy, L. R. (1983). The role of metaphors and myths in organisation and in the facilitation of change. In L. R. Pondy, P. J. Frost, G. Morgan, & T. Dandridge (Eds.), Organisational symbolism (pp. 157–166). Greenwich: JAI Press.

Reicher, S., Haslam, S. A., & Hopkins, N. (2005). Social identity and the dynamics of leadership: Leaders and followers as collaborative agents in the transformation of social reality. The Leadership Quarterly, 16, 547–568.CrossRef

Rhodes, C., & Brown, A. D. (2005a). Writing responsibly: Narrative fiction and organization studies. Organization Studies, 12(4), 467–491.

Rhodes, C., & Brown, A. D. (2005b). Narrative, organizations and research. International Journal of Management Reviews, 7(3), 167–188.CrossRef

Ricoeur, P. (1976). Interpretation theory: Discourse and the surplus of meaning. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press.

Ricoeur, P. (1984a). Time and narrative (Vol. 1) (K. McLaughlin and D. Pellauer, Trans.). University of Chicago Press, London.

Ricoeur, P. (1984b). Time and narrative (Vol. 3) (K. McLaughlin and D. Pellauer, Trans.). University of Chicago Press, London.

Riessman, C. (1993). Narrative analysis. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE.

Ruiz, P., Ruiz, C., & Martinez, R. (2011). Improving the “Leader–Follower” relationship: Top manager or supervisor? The ethical leadership trickle-down effect on follower job response. Journal of Business Ethics, 99(4), 587–608.CrossRef

Shamir, B. (2011). Leadership takes time: Some implications of (not) taking time seriously in leadership research. The Leadership Quarterly, 22(2), 307–315.CrossRef

Somers, M. (1994). The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and network approach. Theory and Society, 23, 605–649.CrossRef

Sonsino, S. (2005). Towards a hermeneutics of narrative identity: A ricoeurian framework for exploring narratives (and narrators) of strategy. Organization Management Journal, 2(3), 166–182.CrossRef

Sveningsson, S., & Alvesson, M. (2003). Managing managerial identities: Organizational fragmentation, discourse and identity struggle. Human Relations, 56(10), 1163–1193.CrossRef

Sveningsson, S., & Larsson, M. (2006). Fantasies of leadership: Identity work. Leadership, 2(2), 203–224.CrossRef

Taylor, S. (2001). Evaluating and applying discourse analytic research. In M. Wetherell, S. Taylor, & S. J. Yates (Eds.), Discourse as data: A guide for analysis (pp. 311–330). London: SAGE.

Taylor, S., & Wetherell, M. (1999). A suitable time and place. Speakers. Use of time to do discursive work in narratives of nation and personal life. Time and Society, 8(1), 39–58.CrossRef

Thornborrow, T., & Brown, A. D. (2009). ‘Being regimented’: Aspiration, discipline and identity work in the British parachute regiment. Organization Studies, 30(4), 355–376.CrossRef

Toor, S., & Ofori, G. (2009). Ethical leadership: Examining the relationships with full range leadership model, employee outcomes, and organizational culture. Journal of Business Ethics, 90(4), 533–547.CrossRef

Waistell, J. (2006). Metaphorical mediation of organizational change across space and time. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 19(5), 640–654.CrossRef

Waistell, J. (2009). Management education: Critically, dialectically, metaphorically. International Journal of Management Education, 8(1), 73–84.CrossRef

Watson, T. J. (2001). In search of management. London: Cengage.

Watson, T. J. (2008). Managing identity: identity work, personal predicaments and structural circumstances. Organization, 15(1), 121–143.CrossRef

Watson, T. J. (2009). Narrative, life story and manager identity: A case study in autobiographical identity work. Human Relations, 62(3), 425–452.CrossRef

Yanow, D. (2006). Thinking interpretively: Philosophical presuppositions and the human sciences. In D. Yanow & P. Schwartz-Shea (Eds.), Interpretation and method. Empirical research methods and the interpretive turn (pp. 5–26). London: M.E Sharpe.

Ybema, S. (2010). Talk of change: Temporal contrasts and collective identities. Organization Studies, 31(4), 481–503.CrossRef

Ybema, S., Keenoy, T., Oswick, C., Beverungen, A., Ellis, N., & Sabelis, I. (2009). Articulating identities. Human Relations, 62(3), 299–322.CrossRef

Yin, R. K. (2009). Case study research. Design and methods (4th ed.). London: SAGE.

Zerubavel, E. (2003). Time maps: Collective memory and the social shape of the past. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Titel: Identity Talk of Aspirational Ethical Leaders
verfasst von: Juliette Koning
Jeff Waistell
Publikationsdatum: 01.04.2012
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Journal of Business Ethics / Ausgabe 1/2012
Print ISSN: 0167-4544
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0697
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-012-1297-3

Springer Professional

Abstract

Bitte loggen Sie sich ein, um Zugang zu Ihrer Lizenz zu erhalten.

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Weitere Artikel der Ausgabe 1/2012

Leader Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations: Strategies for Sensemaking

Guest Editor’s Biographies

Leadership, Identity, and Ethics

Work Engagement and Machiavellianism in the Ethical Leadership Process

Exploring the Process of Ethical Leadership: The Mediating Role of Employee Voice and Psychological Ownership

The Normative Foundations of Unethical Supervision in Organizations

Premium Partner