Given the power of multinational organizations in developed and emerging economies, and their role in economic growth, their leaders face particular moral and business challenges in the contemporary global economy. This book draws on a range of different ideas and literatures to outline a framework of virtues that global leaders could adopt.

1. The Virtues of Leadership: Contemporary Challenge for Global Managers ; 2. The New Virtuosi: Global Managers ; 3. Cognitive and Energizing Virtues ; 4. Amiability and Citizenship Virtues ; 5. The Virtues of Transcendence ; 6. The Virtues of Global Leaders: An Integrative Research Perspective ; 7. What Is To Be Done?

Flags up key virtues required of leaders Shows how and why multinational companies are crucial to economic and social development Explores issues of corporate responsibility and ethics Suggests practical applications for theory Draws on models of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Arménio Rego is Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He has a PhD from ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute, Portugal. He is author or co-author of more than forty papers in international journals, such as such as Applied Psychology: An International Review, European Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resources Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Happiness Studies, Journal of Organizational Change Management, and Journal of Occupational Health Psychology. He is also author or co-author of more than thirty books on topics such as leadership, organizational behaviour, organizational justice, human resource management, coaching, and corporate social responsibility. Miguel Pina e Cunha is Professor of Organizational Theory and Behavior at Nova School of Business and Economics, Lisbon. He has a PhD from Tilburg University and is mainly conducting research in the area of emergent change, namely on how processes such as improvisation, serendipity and bricolage influence the way organizations function. He served as a member of the board of journals such as European Management Review, Management, Management Research, Management Learning, and Organization Studies. He has published more than 80 papers in journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies, Organization, and Organization Studies. He chaired the 2010 annual colloquium of EGOS (the European Group for Organization Studies), is academic co-director of The Lisbon MBA and taught in various programmes in Europe, Africa, and South America. Stewart R. Clegg is Professor of Management and Research Director of the Centre for Organization and Management Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney Business School. For over forty years he has been extremely active in teaching and researching organizations and management from a sociological perspective. He is the author of Power, Rule and Domination (1975), The Theory of Power and Organization (1979), Organization, Class and Control (1980), Class, Politics and the Economy (1983), Frameworks of Power (1989), Modern Organizations (1990), Power and Organizations (2006), and Strategy: Theory and Practice (2011), as well as the editor of many volumes, including the award-winning Handbook of Organization Studies (2006). In addition he is Editor of the series Advances in Organization Studies.

Flags up key virtues required of leaders Shows how and why multinational companies are crucial to economic and social development Explores issues of corporate responsibility and ethics Suggests practical applications for theory Draws on models of Positive Organizational Scholarship