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Exploring sustainability-related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in South Africa
Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Corporate Strategy))--University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/109244 Exploring sustainability-related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in South Africa Joseph Renjini ichelp@gibs.co.za Zimu, Dean UCTD Shared value creation Responsible strategic leadership Sustainability orientation (SO) Voluntary green behaviour (VGB) Sustainability-related competencies Mini Dissertation (MPhil (Corporate Strategy))--University of Pretoria, 2025. Strategic leadership discipline, anchored on the Upper Echelons Theory, is evolving and expanding, more strategic leadership styles are identified and added to the strategic leadership discourse. The rise in prominence of ESG and sustainability globally, stakeholders are increasingly demanding organisations to respond to the social pressures and the climate emergency. Responsible strategic leadership style, and its associated sustainability-related cognitive competencies, and shared value creation have emerged in response to these pressing societal issues. This study explored the adequacy of sustainability-related strategic leadership competencies to drive shared value creation in emerging markets, with South Africa as the chosen setting. The study sought to qualitatively explore the perceptions that professionally trained strategic leaders have of sustainability-related competencies required for shared value creation in the South African context. To achieve this, 16 strategic leaders drawn across different industries were interviewed to collect experiential data on shared value creation in South Africa. A thematic analysis was conducted on the data collected and evaluated against extant literature on responsible leadership as a driver of shared value creation. The results indicate an apparent lag in extent of shared value created in emerging markets compared to developed markets, however, strategic leaders in South Africa perceived the cognitive sustainability-related strategic leadership competencies of emerging markets strategic leaders to be on par with their counterparts in developed markets. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MPhil (Corporate Strategy) Unrestricted Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) SDG-12: Responsible consumption and production 2026-03-23T09:45:34Z 2026-03-23T09:45:34Z 2026-05-05 2025 Mini Dissertation * A2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/109244 en © 2025 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Shared value creation Responsible strategic leadership Sustainability orientation (SO) Voluntary green behaviour (VGB) Sustainability-related competencies Exploring sustainability-related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in South Africa |
| title | Exploring sustainability-related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in South Africa |
| title_full | Exploring sustainability-related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Exploring sustainability-related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring sustainability-related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in South Africa |
| title_short | Exploring sustainability-related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in South Africa |
| title_sort | exploring sustainability related cognitive competencies of strategic leaders in south africa |
| topic | UCTD Shared value creation Responsible strategic leadership Sustainability orientation (SO) Voluntary green behaviour (VGB) Sustainability-related competencies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/109244 |