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Focusing on the concept of a firm as a network of stakeholder resources, this book introduces a relational theory that emphasizes governance and managerial strategies within a relational economy. It revisits traditional views of the firm while exploring key concepts like relational governance, costs, and shared value creation. The author outlines the necessary epistemological and methodological foundations for this theory and invites readers to engage in its ongoing development, presenting a dynamic and process-oriented approach to business models.

Focusing on relational economics, this book explores how local and global economic transactions are governed in contemporary societies. It delves into global value creation and production networks, emphasizing the importance of cooperation within and between firms, stakeholder management across sectors, and the role of transcultural leadership. Through this analysis, it provides insights into the mechanisms that drive economic interactions and collaborative strategies in a globalized context.

This book presents the results of a transcultural research group consisting of students and lecturers from Uganda and Germany. Together they conducted research in Uganda, focusing on the culture of central Uganda with a particular focus on the work of the Hope Development Initiative. The contributions, which can be classified into the three categories: entrepreneurship, society and culture, deal primarily with the subject of community building from a transcultural perspective. The aim was to analyse how community building contributes to the creation of entrepreneurial opportunities to make a positive impact on people’s lives as well as on the community as a whole. Contents Introduction: Catherine P. Anena: The HDI and the District of Amolatar I. Entrepreneurship Janine Kaiser: Financing for African Hybrid Start-ups Alexander Shevelov: The Impact of Digital Transformation on Uganda’s Agriculture Asha Olol: How does the HDI Create Value in a Social Enterprise through Inclusive Female Leadership? II. Society Charlotte Theiss: Women in Uganda: Understanding the Gender (Im)balances in Rural Communities Louisa Singer: Creating Change from the Bottom Up. How does HDI Raise Civil Society in Rural Uganda? Marius Hupperich: Development Status and Development Measures by State and Private Players such as the Hope Development Initiative in Amolatar, Northern Uganda David Mugambe Mpiima, Consolata Kabonesa, Henry Manyire, Margarita Espling: The New Normal? Farmer Groups, ICTs, and Empowerment in Apac District, Lango Region in Northern Uganda Catherine P. Anena, Catherine I. Abalo: Best Practices in Promotion of Women’s Sustainable Livelihoods: A Case of the HDI Rice Programme in Amolatar III. Culture Annelie Graf: Art and Culture as Contributions to Identity Building in Rural Communities in Uganda - A Field Report Cara Thielen: (Organizational) Culture, Identity and Cultural Change: Explorative Research on the Hope Development Initiative Elizabeth Kaase-Bwanga, Agnes Apea Atim and Betty Akullo: Culture, Self-Identity and its Effect on the Economic Empowerment of Women – A Case Study on the Hope Development Initiative

The concept of Transcultural Leadership is gaining increasing attention among academics and in practice. In the context of the complex economical and societal developments that we face in today’s world, managing the relationing of different perspectives and enabling the required learning processes calls for competencies that go beyond traditional leadership concepts. Effective transcultural leadership is about responding to the challenges that globalisation and global value creation bring – and about accessing the potentials of cross-cultural cooperation. Against this backdrop, this volume presents the current state of research on the concept of Transcultural Leadership and the corresponding competence models. It combines innovative theoretical and conceptual approaches with topical empirical analyses, and thereby offers a sound foundation for reflections on what it means to be a successful leader in today’s and tomorrow’s globalising environments. Contents Josef Wieland and Julika Baumann Montecinos A Competence-based Approach to Transcultural Leadership - Introduction to a Research Program Josef Wieland Transculturality as a Leadership Style - A Relational Approach Thilo von Gilsa Operationalizing Transcultural Competence. An Analysis of Related Concepts and Methods of Measurements Antonin Salice-Stephan Transcultural by Biography. A Comparative Study on the Transcultural Competences of 'Biculturals' and 'Monoculturals' Sebastian Urthaler Transculturality and its Focus on Commonalities Tobias Grünfelder From Global to Transcultural Competence. Derived Findings for Transcultural Competence from the Global Competence Assessment by PISA Julika Baumann Montecinos, Elena Hunzinger, Preeti Singh and Sabine Wiesmüller Transcultural Management in Global Firms Josef Wieland and Julika Baumann Montecinos University Education in Transcultural Competence. The Example of the Global Studies Projects at Zeppelin University

Communication and cooperation between culturally diverse people and organizations are mostly described as intercultural, transnational or cross-border phenomena – a perspective that might not fit to all realities, for example, when being applied to Hong Kong. Since 1842, Hong Kong has been a “marginal man” between the East and the West: As a window for Western economic and cultural outreach to Asia as well as a Chinese gateway to the world, the city represents a unique microcosm for cultural convergence, contagion, divergence and hybridization to name but a few of the prevalent attributions. However, what if Hong Kong were neither a case of “either – or” nor a melting pot of cultures, but an example of the emergence of something new? What are the transcultural practices, spheres and competences that allow diversity and create commonality? This book introduces the transcultural approach and assembles the findings of a field project conducted by a group of young researchers from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. Being a transcultural experiment itself, the project analyzes the case of Hong Kong from the perspective of arts, geography, management, media, political science, and sociology. The result is a multi-faceted and complex picture of Hong Kong as a microcosm – of transculturality. Contents I. Transcultural Research in and about Hong Kong Josef Wieland, Julika Baumann Montecinos: Pioneering Transcultural Research Ross Cheung, J. Baumann Montecinos: Backgrounds and Composition of the Research Project R. Cheung: Why Hong Kong? R. Cheung: Some Reflections on Transculturality and Case Study Methods II. Transculturality or Hybridiidiidity? Interdisdisdisciplinary Perspectivives on the Case of Hong Kong Max Röcker: The History and Transformation of Hong Kong’s Elites R. Cheung: Transcultural Migrants from and in Hong Kong Ofelia Esther Señas: Can Art Fairs Expedite Societal Development and Change towards Transculturality? Elisabeth Jung: Transculturality and Journalism in Hong Kong Tanja Savanin: Transcultural Management in Hong Kong Wai-wan Vivien Chan: Corporate Transnationalism, Identity Politics and Career Mobility: A Case Study of Hong Kong Chinese Female Bankers Tobias Grünfelder: From hybridity to transculturality. The transcultural approach as a promising process for Hong Kong? Annex: The Joint Declaration and its Implementation

Over the last years, “Creating Shared Value” has become a much discussed concept in business practice as well as in management theory and especially in the context of corporate social responsibility. This book offers a contribution to the current academic discussions on the well-received article of Michael Porter and Marc Kramer in Harvard Business Review in 2011. In the light of the increasing references to the shared value concept, it develops a critical discussion on its fundamentals and its implications for the relationship between economy and society. By that, the book seeks to shed light on the understanding of the role and the nature of the firm in a globalized economy. The result is a collection of interdisciplinary academic reviews which offer interdisciplinary reflections on “Creating Shared Value” to illuminate theoretical, conceptual and practical challenges of the topic. Within the fields of Business Ethics, Theory of the Firm, Management and Philosophy, researcher, students and practitioners will be given a deeper insight on how to approach to the concept in a conceptional and philosophical way.

To state that, in a globalizing world, cooperation across cultures is needed to bring about prosperity and mutual gain seems self-evident. In the context of global value creation we need to think and act across borders. However, what exactly might form the basis and success factors of such cooperation? And what does this imply for leadership strategies? At the annual Transcultural Leadership Summit at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, these topics are tackled in depth. This publication assembles the contributions of various speakers at the Summit held in 2017, following the Summit’s title “Learning about Sub-Saharan Africa” and continuing some of the key reflections and discussions raised throughout the event. Considering current developments, including the worldwide reach of value chains and political and societal initiatives, Sub-Saharan Africa has high potential for being the next hub of globalization. Global value creation opens up new opportunities, not only in terms of the development of countries individually, but also in terms of cross-border cooperation and transcultural processes in business and society – this is what the title “Learning about Sub-Saharan Africa” is all about. Exchanging ideas about successful cooperation between Sub-Saharan Africa and Germany, telling success stories, learning from each other, being creative and open-minded – all these are features that lie at the core of the concept of transculturality. This book aims to contribute to this endeavour. Contents I. Concepts of Good Governance and Leadership – Wieland/Baumann Montecinos: Transculturality and Global Value Creation • Metz: An African Theory of Good Leadership • Omitola: African Governance: Current Challenges and Future Prospects • II. Success Stories: Case Studies on Sub-Saharan African Leadership – Atim Apea/Göller: Empowering Women Leadership – a Community-Based Approach • Marte/Zips: Engendering Traditional Leadership in Botswana – a Case Study of Inclusive Leadership • Nono: What drives success in South-African enterprises? The Rolls-Royce Leadership Model • Quaye/Kusi Appiah: Learning from Start-Ups • dos Santos Pinto: The Benefits of Urbanism – Success Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa

2017 feiert die Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland das 500-jährige Gedenkjubiläum Martin Luthers und der Reformation. Im Kern eine religiöse Erneuerung, setzte die Reformation enorme Energien für Kultur, Politik, Recht, Wirtschaft und Sozialgestaltung frei, sodass sie nicht allein als religiöser Paradigmenwechsel gedeutet, sondern in diesem Sinne theologisch und gesellschaftstheoretisch interpretiert werden kann. Die Reformation und der Protestantismus als Teilbereich der Säkulargeschichte haben die funktionale Ausdifferenzierung gesellschaftlicher Sphären und Systeme wie Politik, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Zivilgesellschaft mitgeprägt, nichts blieb vom Geist des Protestantismus unberührt. Der Band möchte aufzeigen, dass die Reflexion auf die grundlegenden Kategorien des Protestantismus, und damit des Christentums, eine Ressource ist, die uns nicht nur die Grundlagen des eigenen Existenzrahmens verdeutlicht, sondern auch Potenziale bietet, um eine globale Moderne überhaupt gestalten zu können. International renommierte Wissenschaftler und Experten aus Europa, China und den USA klären auf Basis unterschiedlicher ökonomischer, soziologischer und theologischer Bezugsrahmen die Horizonte, in denen originär protestantische Perspektiven auch heute noch – oder wieder wirksam sind. Insbesondere die dynamischen Faktoren der protestantischen Mentalität, wie die Traditions- und Autoritätskritik durch den Glauben oder die Aspekte der Selbstverwirklichung und Sozialität im Glauben, stehen im Zentrum der Diskussion. Deren Rückbindung an eine global zu denkende Gesellschafts-, Wirtschafts- und Führungsethik bildet einen weiteren wesentlichen Strang der Beiträge dieses anlässlich des titelgebenden Wissenschaftssymposiums entstandenen Herausgeberbands.

Past academic approaches to leadership have dominantly dealt with intra-organizational issues in a mono-cultural environment. This might be an appropriate approach to meet the challenges of industrialization; beyond this, however, its applicability is very limited. Today organizations operate within multi-cultural settings determined not only by organizational culture but also by national culture. New leadership requires productive cooperation in a very fundamental way. Therefore, we need globally accepted ethical norms and legal rules for economic activity. The lack of global institutions addressing such issues challenges the commitment of people with a global mindset. Transcultural ideals can serve as a common bond in decisionmaking processes regarding crucial issues. This volume is the result of a global essay competition as part of the Transcultural Caravan. The Transcultural Caravan is a project encouraging research, a worldwide dialogue, and the spread of sustainable ideas which support the development of globally accepted norms of socially responsible behavior. The role of leadership in this process is pivotal. So we asked young researchers from all over the world to reflect on values and capabilities necessary in order to face present and future challenges from a transcultural perspective. The book deals with transcultural aspects in leadership-, management-, and governance issues.