Journal article
Heroic ecologies: Embodied heroic leadership and sustainable futures
Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, Vol.8(4), pp.489-511
2017
Abstract
Purpose
This paper seeks to demonstrate heroism as an embodied system of leadership and wellbeing. Heroic leadership is presented as a baseline for sustainable futures and global health.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents an embodied reading of heroic leadership and its sustainable development across five stages. It outlines its core functions, its grounding in self-leadership through physical and mental trauma, and its holistic benefits, resulting in the development of the Heroic Leadership Embodiment and Sustainable Development (HLESD) model. The efficacy of HLESD is demonstrated in an empirical case study of heroism promotion and education: the Hero Construction Company and the Heroic Imagination Project.
Findings
Heroic leadership is revealed as an emergent, dynamic and distributed form of sustainable development.
Research limitations/implications
This paper demonstrates the critical connections between heroism, sustainability, embodied leadership and wellbeing, and how they stand to benefit from each other, individuals and communities at large.
Originality/value
The emerging field of heroism science and the utilisation of heroic leadership as an interdisciplinary tool is a novel approach to wellbeing, which holds immense potential for the imagining and fostering of sustainable personal and collective futures.
Details
- Title
- Heroic ecologies: Embodied heroic leadership and sustainable futures
- Authors/Creators
- O. Efthimiou (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, Vol.8(4), pp.489-511
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
- Identifiers
- 991005543071507891
- Copyright
- © 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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