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Understanding the Organizational Climate of Unethical Leadership in the Australian Football League
Author(s) -
Crawford Joseph,
Dawkins Sarah,
Martin Angela,
Lewis Gemma
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of leadership studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.219
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1935-262X
pISSN - 1935-2611
DOI - 10.1002/jls.21525
Subject(s) - league , football , public relations , club , political science , sociology , law , physics , astronomy , medicine , anatomy
Leadership theories continue to be aimed at addressing and understanding contemporary challenges in society, such as the problems created by unethical leader decisions and behaviors. In the current paper, we put forward a number of future research propositions following a case study of the Australian Football League (AFL). Specifically, we examine how the organizational climate of one such club impacted their leaders’ decision‐making in relation to a drug scandal.