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Ethical Leadership and Global Citizenship: Considerations for a Just and Sustainable Future

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This article discusses issues of social and distributive justice in the context of global capitalism in the twenty-first century and the necessity of incorporating values-clarification and ethical leadership as part of the core curriculum for university graduates.

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Correspondence to Deborah C. Poff.

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An abbreviated version of this article has been published as a chapter in ‘Carla C. J. M. Millar and Eve Poole, Ethical Leadership’, published 2010, Palgrave Macmillan; reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.

Deborah C. Poff Ph.D. is President and Vice-Chancellor of Brandon University, Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics, and Editor-in-Chief, of the Journal of Academic Ethics.

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Poff, D.C. Ethical Leadership and Global Citizenship: Considerations for a Just and Sustainable Future. J Bus Ethics 93 (Suppl 1), 9–14 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-010-0623-x

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