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Integrating corporate sustainability in strategic management

Norbert Bol

Based on a literature review of 114 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles it shows that sustainability is an important topic for managers but they just rarely consider it in strategic management. Many companies therefore still lack a strategic approach to integrating corporate sustainability into strategy. Literature.

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Responsible and shared leadership

Norbert Bol

Leadership can be found at any level of an organization. This means that you don’t have to be a manager to be a leader. Diverse teams are more successful and innovative than homogeneous teams, as diverse team are better at managing opportunities and threats to create more success in a sustainable way. Norbert Bol.

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Leadership in networked organizations

Norbert Bol

After my last blog about shared leadership I received many votes and many positive reactions. Especially about leadership that can be found everywhere at any level in an organization. Most of the readers agree that leadership is not just a function where you sit, but is more about what you do and how you do it. Norbert Bol.

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Sustainability and creativity are related, but they need a helping hand

Norbert Bol

For ethical business leaders and managers it is important to guide the company in the right direction by fostering an innovative-sustainability-based attitude. Research shows in this respect that ethical leadership is positively related to creativity and innovation. The Leadership Quarterly , 27 (1), 1-13. Norbert Bol.

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Bridging the gap between sustainability strategy formulation and implementation

Norbert Bol

Successful implementation factors that need to be well aligned with the sustainability strategy are: organizational structure, organizational culture, leadership, management control and employee motivation and qualifications. Norbert Bol. Literature. Engert, S., & Baumgartner, R. Journal of Cleaner Production.

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Creating more value in services

Norbert Bol

2016) came online which proposes that in a modern service approach we should include ecosystem services as well. 2016, in press, corrected proof). What is behind the leadership shift in sustainable development from politicians to CEOs? This month a new scientific article (Matthies et al., D’Amato, D., Berghäll, S., Zoeteman, B.

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Innovation and the role of lead users in online communities

Norbert Bol

The International Journal of Information Management will publish in the August 2016 edition an article (Hau & Kang, 2016) that reveals more insight in the role that lead users have in these online user-communities. Norbert Bol. Literature. S., & Kang, M.

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