Stanberry, Joanna
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1184-2874
(2025)
Sustainability leadership theory.
In: Guthrie, Kathy and Whitney, Rich, (eds.)
Leadership theories, frameworks, and approaches in practice.
Emerald Publishing, Leeds, UK, pp. 225-238.
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Abstract
Sustainability leadership theory (SLT) emerged to organize and metatheorize sustainability for leadership studies. The four refractive knowledge processes of SLT are captured as embodying, embedding, envisioning, and enacting, with visible modulations or expressions that direct the dynamic nature of knowledge moving into and out of individual, intersubjective, and social spaces. By mapping these movements and their effects as leadership modes, this theory aims to enable non dualistic thinking and ecological reflexivity centered on the Earth System, forming for leadership studies a partial connection for Indigenous knowledge and relational ontologies. This chapter explores the history and context around the sustainable leadership theory, defines the theory, and concludes with strengths and opportunities of the theory.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Emerald Publishing |
| ISBN: | 9781837089499 / 9781837089505 / 9781837089482 |
| Departments: | Institute of Business, Industry and Leadership > Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) |
| Additional Information: | Chapter 18 within book. Joanna Stanberry, postgraduate researcher at the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability, University of Cumbria, UK. |
| Depositing User: | Anna Lupton |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Oct 2025 12:03 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2025 12:03 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/9140 |
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