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REVIEW PAPER
Green Leadership in Policy Making
towards Sustainable Future: Systematic
Critical Review and Future Direction
1
Public Administration Department, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
2
Center for Decentralization and Participatory Development Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences,
Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Submission date: 2024-01-08
Final revision date: 2024-01-30
Acceptance date: 2024-03-27
Online publication date: 2024-06-06
Publication date: 2025-01-02
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2025;34(1):519-534
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ABSTRACT
The purpose of this systematic literature review study is to determine, evaluate, and examine trends
in scientific publications on green leadership, as well as the degree to which this topic has evolved and
been explored by scholars worldwide. This study explores the relationship between green leadership
and environmentally conscious decision-making. This research examines, evaluates, and describes
several debates and works of literature concerning the degree to which green leadership may persuade
organizations to embrace environmentally friendly practices. The authors recommend that future
studies explore more effective and applicable strategic frameworks for implementing the concept of
green leadership universally, as this result demonstrates how the main points of the studies mentioned
above attempt to explain the urgency of applying the concept of green leadership in the implementation
of pro-environmental policies and the resulting impacts. This study offers several recommendations
for raising organizational knowledge of the green leadership approach in order to promote ecologically
sustainable development.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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