ABSTRACT
This study aims to present the state of art and define a future research agenda on the role of ethical leadership in developing social impact by analyzing research articles from the Scopus database. The chapter has a global focus, as only ethical leaders can guarantee to shift organizations towards a sustainable economy. We selected 139 research articles within the Scopus database for a bibliometric and structured literature review. For analysis, we used multiple techniques and tools such as the open-source statistical application R for the descriptive bibliometric analysis, bibliophily, and application WebSty by CLARIN-PL. Our results indicate a lack of papers investigating the role of ethical leadership in social impact. In recent years, we have observed an increase in publications exploring leadership roles and social impact, which confirms the understanding of that topic’s importance among scholars. However, until today, the early stage of research development is present, resulting in numerous works using qualitative methods, which are characteristic of explorative studies.
