This review advances a critical discussion of prevalent sustainability discourses in the leadership and management literature. Since the 1990s, ecocentric approaches to management have been discussed in opposition to anthropocentric (human centered) management theory. However, limited attention has been given, so far, to clarifying how sustainability discourses have influenced the literature of leadership and management. The influence of rights‐based United Nations Sustainable Development dating back to the Brundtland report in 1987 is widely recognized, as are business and technology‐based discourses in sustainability (ecological modernism). Such discourses are united in a belief in green growth. However, a literature review shows that critical sustainability discourses about limits to growth, planetary boundaries and the need for degrowth, as well as ecocentric discourses, are only marginally present in the literature on leadership and management. In view of the need for leadership to address the “polycrisis” of entangled environmental and social crises, we problematize the lack of critical sustainability discourses in the leadership and management literature.

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领导力和管理文献中的可持续性论述：批判性综述


这篇综述推进了对领导力和管理文献中普遍存在的可持续性话语的批判性讨论。自 1990 年代以来，人们一直在讨论以生态为中心的管理方法，以反对人类中心主义（以人为中心）管理理论。然而，到目前为止，对阐明可持续性话语如何影响领导力和管理文献的关注有限。自 1987 年的 Brundtland 报告以来，基于权利的联合国可持续发展的影响力得到了广泛认可，基于商业和技术的可持续性话语（生态现代主义）也是如此。这些话语都统一在绿色增长的信念中。然而，文献综述表明，关于增长限制、地球边界和去增长需求的关键可持续性话语，以及以生态为中心的话语，在领导力和管理的文献中只占微不足道。鉴于领导层需要解决纠缠不清的环境和社会危机的“多重危机”，我们对领导力和管理文献中缺乏关键的可持续性话语提出了问题。