Leadership for biodiversity: a radical management innovation

Satu Teerikangas, Ilari E. Sääksjärvi and Marja Turunen

Chapter 62 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 239-243 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: To address the global decline of biodiversity, transformative change to reform global economic systems is needed. The required transformative change is paradigm-breaking. It calls for innovation in governance, business and consumption practices. Yet, transformative change does not occur by itself. To be enacted, it calls for leadership. This entry develops a conceptualisation of biodiversity-respectful leadership. Responding to calls for actor-based perspectives on innovation, the developed leadership framework can be considered a radical management innovation, given that it supports the transformative, i.e. disruptive, change toward biodiversity-respectful governance, business and consumption practices. Furthering actors’ top-down and bottom-up leadership, it seeks to inspire biodiversity-respectful initiatives and, thereby, emergent, novel and creative micro-, macro- and meso-level innovations toward ecologically sustainable futures.

Keywords: Leadership; Biodiversity; Sustainability; Transformative change; Management innovation; Radical innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035306442
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