On 19 November 2025, Emily Nass presented her research at the PARSEC Brown-Bag Event on the topic of "Sustainable Leadership - Reviewing and Reshaping Current Perspectives" presented. Her systematic literature analysis shows that the research field on leadership and sustainability is currently highly fragmented and that previously established leadership approaches, such as responsible leadership, ethical leadership or green transformational leadership, understand and integrate sustainability in different ways.
In order to make the existing concepts comparable and to identify the basic components of sustainable leadership, she develops four dimensions derived from the literature - time, scope, involvement and perspective - and categorises the different leadership approaches on the basis of these. This structuring clearly shows where the leadership concepts themselves and their sustainability approaches overlap and differ.
She also emphasises the need for a uniform definition of sustainable leadership, as a consistent understanding of the term is the prerequisite for sharpening the field of research theoretically and driving empirical research forward. Following her presentation, Emily Nass received constructive feedback in an exchange with the academic staff.
