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Overview

Thomas Maak is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and specializes in the field of Business, Management, and Accounting. Their research primarily focuses on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Information Systems and Management, Cognitive Neuroscience, Marketing, and Demography.

The scientist's work spans topics such as Ethics in Business and Education, Management and Organizational Studies, Workplace Spirituality and Leadership, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Recent publications by Thomas Maak include:

  • The Fault Lines of Leadership: Lessons from the Global Covid-19 Crisis, 2021, Journal of Change Management
  • Responsible Leadership and the Reflective CEO: Resolving Stakeholder Conflict by Imagining What Could be done, 2021, Journal of Business Ethics
  • Societal challenges and business leadership for social innovation, 2021, Society and Business Review
  • Applying Neuroscience to Emergent Processes in Teams, 2020, Organizational Research Methods
  • What, When, and How of Responsible Leadership: Taking Stock of Eighteen Years of Research and a Future Agenda, 2024, Journal of Management Studies

Thomas Maak has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Nicola M. Pless, Atri Sengupta, David A. Waldman, Danni Wang, and Pierre A. Balthazard.

Their research has appeared repeatedly in publication venues such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Academy of Management Proceedings, Journal of Change Management, Society and Business Review, and Journal of Management Studies.

Best Publications

  • Responsible leadership in a stakeholder society – a relational perspective

    Thomas Maak;Nicola M. Pless

  • Building an Inclusive Diversity Culture: Principles, Processes and Practice

    Nicola M. Pless;Thomas Maak

  • Responsible Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement, and the Emergence of Social Capital

    Thomas Maak;Thomas Maak

  • Developing Responsible Global Leaders Through International Service-Learning Programs: The Ulysses Experience

    Nicola M Pless;Thomas Maak;Guenter K Stahl

  • Responsible Leadership: Pathways to the Future

    Nicola M. Pless;Thomas Maak

  • Different Approaches Toward Doing the Right Thing: Mapping the Responsibility Orientations of Leaders

    Nicola M. Pless;Thomas Maak;David A. Waldman

  • Business Statesman or Shareholder Advocate? CEO Responsible Leadership Styles and the Micro-Foundations of Political CSR

    Thomas Maak;Nicola M. Pless;Christian Voegtlin

  • Responsible leadership: a relational approach

    Thomas Maak;Nicola M. Pless

  • Business Leaders as Citizens of the World. Advancing Humanism on a Global Scale

    Thomas Maak;Nicola M. Pless

  • Undivided Corporate Responsibility: Towards a Theory of Corporate Integrity

    Thomas Maak

  • Promoting corporate social responsibility and sustainable development through management development: What can be learned from international service learning programs?

    Nicola M. Pless;Thomas Maak;Günter K. Stahl

  • Responsible Leaders as Agents of World Benefit: Learnings from Project Ulysses.

    Nicola Pless;Nicola Pless;Thomas Maak;Thomas Maak

  • Integre Unternehmensführung : Ethisches Orientierungswissen für die Wirtschaftspraxis

    Thomas Maak;Peter Ulrich

  • Relational Intelligence for Leading Responsibly in a Connected World.

    Nicola M. Pless;Thomas Maak

  • Responsible Global Leadership

    Guenter K Stahl;Nicola M Pless;Thomas Maak;Christof Miska

  • Social Entrepreneurs as Responsible Leaders: Fundación Paraguaya and the Case of Martin Burt.

    Thomas Maak;Nicolas Stoetter

  • Business Ethics: The Promise of Neuroscience

    Diana C. Robertson;Christian Voegtlin;Thomas Maak

  • Die Wirtschaft der Bürgergesellschaft

    Thomas Maak

  • The Fault Lines of Leadership: Lessons from the Global Covid-19 Crisis

    Thomas Maak;Nicola M. Pless;Franz Wohlgezogen

  • The Cosmopolitical Corporation

    Thomas Maak

  • Responsible Leadership and the Reflective CEO: Resolving Stakeholder Conflict by Imagining What Could be done.

    Nicola M Pless;Atri Sengupta;Melissa A Wheeler;Thomas Maak

  • Responsible Leadership in a Stakeholder Society.

    Thomas Maak;Nicola Pless

  • Responsible Leadership: Verantwortliche Führung im Kontext einer globalen Stakeholder-Gesellschaft

    Nicola M Pless;Thomas Maak

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean T. Hannah
Sean T. Hannah Wake Forest University
Nancy J. Adler
Nancy J. Adler McGill University

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