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Crisis management; Responsibility compass; Responsible Leadership
Introduction
The heightened attention to the field of Responsible Leadership in the last two decades has enriched the scholarship as it pertains to its conceptualization, its practice in different contexts at multiple levels with several antecedent conditions and outcomes (Miska et al. 2018). Despite this growth, there is limited research on the impact of the Responsible Leadership in crisis management. Paradoxically, the development of Responsible Leadership as a social and moral phenomenon has been influenced strongly by corporate illegalities. One of the reasons that crisis management has received scant attention within Responsible Leadership scholarship could be explained on the basis that crises are low-probability events and leaders in most organizations perceive their organization to be invulnerable and have a false sense of confidence in their abilities to be able to develop a solution in the event of a...
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Varma, T.M. (2023). Responsible Leadership and Crisis Management. In: Poff, D.C., Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22767-8_778
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