. Since then the world has witnessed scandals like Enron, WorldCom, Siemens and many other high-profile cases of leadership … towards theory for answers to the rising call for socially responsible leadership hopes for quick fixes or even adequate … support are disillusioned. Leadership ethics as the overarching label for questions on ethics, fairness, legitimacy …

The paper advances an understanding of responsible leadership as a political conception and offers an agenda for future … research in this field. Our conceptualization of responsible leadership draws on deliberative practices and discursive conflict … resolution, combining the macro-view of the business firm as a political actor with the micro-view of leadership. We discuss the …