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  1. Leading Organizations Through the Stages of Grief: The Development of Negative Emotions Over Environmental Change.Rolf Wüstenhagen & Elmar Friedrich - 2017 - Business and Society 56 (2):186-213.
    This conceptual article theorizes about the effect of emotions of individual organizational leaders during a period of sustainability-related upheaval within an industry. To illustrate the effect of emotions, it proposes to draw on the model of five stages of grief by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a conceptual framework describing terminally ill patients’ responses to their impending death. The authors adapt Kübler-Ross’s taxonomy and use anecdotal evidence from grieving top managers of energy companies in response to the nuclear phase-out in Germany. The article (...)
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  • How Leadership Characteristics Affect Organizational Decline and Downsizing.Abraham Carmeli & Zachary Sheaffer - 2009 - Journal of Business Ethics 86 (3):363-378.
    While studies have investigated the moral issue associated with downsizing, little research attention has been directed to leaders’ behaviors that result in organizational decline and eventually lead them to make a downsizing decision. This study tests a sequence-based model to assess (1) the impact of leaders’ risk-aversion and self-centeredness on organizational decline and downsizing and (2) the impact of organizational and industry decline on organizational downsizing. We address a gap in the decline literature that has only implicitly alluded to leadership (...)
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