Leading Organizations through the Stages of Grief The Development of Negative Emotions over Environmental Change
Type
dissertation project
Start Date
June 30, 2012
End Date
May 10, 2014
Status
completed
Keywords
Emotions
stages of grief
organizational change
decision-making
corporate sustainability
nuclear energy
energy policy
Description
This conceptual paper 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 (1969), a conceptual framework describing terminally ill patients' responses to their impending death. The authors adapt Kübler-Ross' taxonomy and use anecdotal evidence from grieving top managers of energy companies in response to the nuclear phase-out in Germany. The paper conceptualizes the influence of emotions in the decision-making process of key agents in response to institutional pressures in their field. The paper suggests that focusing on emotional influences will add an important dimension to the analysis of sustainability strategies, and discuss implications for further research at an individual and organizational level
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Nagelschneider Stiftung
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Topic(s)
Emotionen
Entscheidungsverhalten
Riskowahrnehmung
Erneuerbare Energien
Atomausstieg
Energiewirtschaft
Method(s)
Theorieentwicklung
Fallstudie
Fallstudie
Range
Institute/School
Range (De)
Institut/School
Eprints ID
233868