CEO Vision Communication of Sustainability and Sustainability Performance

Even if sustainable development is well known for its critical role in firm economic benefits, survival, and growth, we still know little about the antecedents of how it works within the organization. The purpose of this paper is to establish how and when CEO vision communication fosters firm sustainability performance. Building on the framework of upper echelon theory and organizational sustainability literature, we proposed that vision communication of sustainability would catalyze organizational change, facilitating firm sustainability performance. Moreover, we also reveal the boundary condition of dialectical leadership. CEO dialectical leadership will accelerate the above positive associations. Data analysis results from 130 CEO and their 562 top management team (TMT) members supported our propositions. Theoretical implications and future research directions are also discussed.