Identity Talk of Aspirational Ethical Leaders |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Juliette?KoningEmail author Jeff?Waistell |
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Institution: | (1) Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK |
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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. |
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