Theo Pepe Strathoff

The basic idea of the conceptual paper is to discuss the notion of value creation in the business and society field and to present the public value concept as a way of extending the understanding of business's value creation for society. First, the paper draws on the value balance accountability (VBA) model by Schwartz and Carroll, in which value creation is identified as a central element in the business and society field. Second, based on this, we critically evaluate the VBA model's value notion, which appears to be relatively vague and narrow. Third, in order to tackle these gaps, we present Meynhardt's public value approach, which provides an extended notion of value creation. We further propose a combined public value-balance-accountability-framework. Public value fills the framework's value dimension with actual content and provides a microfoundation. It helps to overcome the separation fallacy. The combined framework contributes to both theory and practice in the business and society field.

Management attitudes for sustainable development are an important antecedent of responsible leadership behavior. However, the factors that determine sustainable management attitudes are not yet thoroughly researched. This paper puts forward a theoretical model, in which individual values and conceptual understanding of sustainability are included as drivers of sustainable management attitudes. The paper also enquires the role of having attended a university following a whole institution approach to education for sustainability. A quantitative empirical approach based on a survey dataset is chosen to test the model. The results confirm the relevance of self-transcendent and open values as antecedents of responsible management attitudes. Further, the important role of the conceptual sustainability understanding can be confirmed. Interestingly, a skepticism factor is identified that has a significant negative influence on management attitudes for environmental sustainability. Surprisingly, the hypothesized positive relationship between having attended a university following a whole institution approach to education for sustainable development and sustainable management attitudes cannot be confirmed. In fact, the results even suggest a negative relationship. Finally, the paper includes implications and avenues for further research on responsible leader mindsets and responsible management education as well as implications for responsible leadership practice.

This paper identifies three major gaps in the debate on sustainable management behavior. It explores, first, the relevance of a person's understanding of sustainability and, second, the importance and role he or she attributes to sustainability with regard to management issues (here referred to as "sustainability rationales") in order to explain preferences for specific management practices. Third, this paper considers the importance of socio-cultural contexts, which play a major role in determining value systems, as well as of the connection between individual values and management preferences for sustainability. Introducing a framework to explore all of these relations, this paper contributes to the emerging discourse on responsible leadership. Potential implications for further research are discussed.

This article puts the St. Gallen Multi-Layered Privacy Interaction Framework (SG-PIF) into action. The SG-PIF aims to conceptualize privacy as an outcome of various aspects of life and society. Different levels of interaction between individuals' privacy behavior, understood as a decision-making process on whether to disclose personal information, and their environment are subject of investigation. Those layers include the personal level, organizations, society at large and the government. Thus the SG-PIF includes not only psychological aspects of privacy but also the economic, social, cultural, and legal factors that affect individual decision-making processes. The focus of the framework rests on the interaction of these layers or the reciprocal nature of them and the analysis of the impact on individual privacy behavior (Section 2). We use two case-studies to demonstrate how the SG-PIF can be applied to structure the analysis of privacy-related phenomena. The first case study treats the privacy-intrusive practice of email tracking (Section 3). The second one looks at the more futuristic developments in robotics and the impact on individual privacy (Section 4).

The factors that make people satisfied with their lives have been thoroughly researched by economists. It has been found that individual level, socioeconomic, macroeconomic as well as institutional factors can explain to a large extent why some people are happy with their lives and others are not. The public value debate in public management research has concentrated on the question how public administration organizations' broader societal outcomes can be understood and measured. Public value describes how public administrations form a vital part of the social context, in which people develop and grow. However, it has not yet been analyzed how the public administration contributes to happiness. We propose to link the two debates by analyzing empirically the relationship between public administration's public value and people's happiness. Our empirical approach is based on a novel and unique dataset from Switzerland which comprises 870 individuals, who reported on their happiness and evaluated the Swiss public administration's public value in a survey. Using OLS regression to test our hypotheses, we found support for a positive relationship between public administration public value and happiness. Also, a model that includes public administration's public value as an explanatory variable explains significantly more variance than the standard happiness model. We discuss the implications of our findings for public sector performance measurement, economic models for explaining wellbeing as well as broader questions of political economy.