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International Leadership

Effecting Success Across Borders in a Boundaryless World

  • Brings together established experts, seasoned leaders and new voices
  • Focuses on international leaders as pragmatic agents of transformation
  • Characterized by its human-centered focus

Part of the book series: uniscope. Publikationen der SGO Stiftung (UNISCOPE)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Preamble: Approach, Purpose, Structure, and Guiding Questions

      • Ingo Stolz, Sylvie Oldenziel Scherrer
      Pages 3-5
  3. Leading International Organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. Enacting Opportunities across Borders

      • Sylvie Oldenziel Scherrer, Ingo Stolz, Sheron Baumann
      Pages 33-48
    3. Early and Rapid or Late and Slow?

      • Pascal Wild, Rico Baldegger
      Pages 49-77
    4. Cooperation With Distributors in Arabic-Speaking Countries

      • Paul Ammann, Gerald Drißner
      Pages 79-109
  4. Leading International Teams

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
    2. Co-leading an International Collaborative Team: Relationships Matter

      • Jillaine Farrar, Mary Gene Saudelli
      Pages 187-211
    3. An Exploration of Humanistic Leadership

      • Christopher Vohrer
      Pages 213-231
    4. Developing Global Leadership in Africa

      • Eva Jordans, Maria Derakhshan, Zoe Rutter, Santie de Villiers, Bettina Ng’weno
      Pages 233-255
    5. Emergent Leadership in Multicultural, Global, and Virtual Teams

      • Pierre Sindambiwe, Michel Ndahimana
      Pages 257-275
  5. Leading with Intercultural and Intrapersonal Excellence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277
    2. Effective Leadership across Cultures

      • Mesut Akdere, Kris Acheson
      Pages 279-299
    3. The Emergence of Chinese Global Executives

      • Xinhua Wittman, Yuan Qin
      Pages 301-320
    4. “A Corporate’s Character Is its Fate”

      • Michael Fürst
      Pages 321-343

About this book

This edited volume strives to support leaders in successfully leading their teams, projects and organizations across borders in an increasingly boundaryless world. From both an academic’s and a practitioner’s perspective, the book focuses on international leaders and their potential to be or become enablers of international success, for and within their respective organizations. The authors are a curated selection of established experts, seasoned leaders, and new voices showcasing novel research, best practices, and business cases. The contributions are assigned to three sections, corresponding to the three core challenges of international leadership: Leading international organizations, leading international teams, and (self)leadership with intercultural excellence. An additional section is dedicated to case studies, exhibiting these challenges in practice.

The Foundation of the Swiss Society for Organization and Management (SGO) as well as Innosuisse – Swiss Innovation Agency supported the creation of this book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Business, Institute of Business and Regional Economics, Lucerne, Switzerland

    Ingo Stolz

  • Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden

    Sylvie Oldenziel Scherrer

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Ingo Stolz is Professor of International Leadership & Management at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) in Lucerne, Switzerland. He is passionate about developing international leadership skills in current and future leaders and about sharing his professional and academic international career experiences in Belgium, China, France, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Switzerland, and the US.
Sylvie Odenziel Scherrer (M.A., MScBA) is currently associated with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) in Switzerland and is pursuing her PhD studies at the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership at Jönköping University, Sweden. Inspired by her professional experience in multinational settings, she is dedicated to fostering inclusive and sustainable leadership in entrepreneurial organizations across the globe.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: International Leadership

  • Book Subtitle: Effecting Success Across Borders in a Boundaryless World

  • Editors: Ingo Stolz, Sylvie Oldenziel Scherrer

  • Series Title: uniscope. Publikationen der SGO Stiftung

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37306-1

  • Publisher: Springer Gabler Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-658-37305-4Published: 26 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-37308-5Published: 27 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-37306-1Published: 25 August 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2626-0581

  • Series E-ISSN: 2626-059X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 407

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Cross-Cultural Management

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Softcover Book USD 59.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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