Sustainable Leadership and Governance in the Digital Era

Mini Track Chairs: Sofia Gomes, Universidade Portucalense, REMIT – Research on Economics, Management and Information Technologies

The increasing complexity of global challenges, ranging from climate change and digital transformation to social inequality, demands new approaches to leadership and governance. This mini-track explores how sustainable leadership practices and innovative governance models are evolving in response to contemporary economic, technological, and societal shifts.
The track aims to bring together scholars and practitioners examining how organizations integrate sustainability into strategic decision-making, leadership development, corporate governance, and stakeholder engagement. Particular attention is given to the intersection of digitalization and sustainability, including how emerging technologies reshape governance structures, transparency, accountability, and ethical decision-making.
We welcome theoretical, empirical, and conceptual contributions that advance understanding of responsible leadership, ESG integration, sustainable business models, digital governance, and generational shifts in organizational values. Interdisciplinary perspectives are particularly encouraged, as well as comparative and cross-cultural studies.
This mini-track seeks to foster dialogue on how leadership and governance frameworks can support long-term value creation, resilience, and responsible management in an increasingly digital and sustainability-driven world.

Recommended Topics

• Sustainable leadership and ESG integration
• Corporate governance and stakeholder accountability
• Digital transformation and governance innovation
• Ethical leadership in technology-driven environments
• Generational change and evolving organizational values
• Responsible management and sustainable business models

The Human Side of Organisational Leadership and Management in the Global World

Mini Track Chairs: Dr Tatiana Gladkikh, University of Aberdeen, UK

This mini-track will address the question of what it means to be human in the context of global organisations, leadership and management. The reality of the postmodern world imposes significant challenges on every individual, exemplified by the demands, pressures and expectations faced by leaders, managers and employees presented by the development of AI, heightened expectations to achieve beyond targets and necessity to sustain consistent growth while remaining human in any situation.

The mini-track aims to discuss academic and professional considerations centred on such areas as individual experiences of people in organisations which strive to survive and succeed in the turbulent socio-economic global context, implications of emotional and psychological support for fostering wellbeing in the workplace, the impact of cultural influences on coherence of collective effort and individual growth, specifics of management and leadership from the perspective of younger generations, the impacts of individual and organisational resilience.

Recommended topics

We invite interdisciplinary research contributions and scholarly reflections on professional practice related, but not limited, to:
• Issues, challenges and opportunities of sustaining emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing in organisational context
• New trends in organisational culture of contemporary organisations and approaches to intercultural and intergenerational conflict resolution, fostering cultural learning and celebrating differences
• Leadership and management challenges and developments in organisations of the XXI century as a consequence of societal change and uncertainty
• Universal human issues and the global mindset
• Leadership responses to challenging demands of human (dis)engagement influenced by remote working and technological developments, including social media and AI.