In light of grand societal challenges, most recently the global Covid-19 pandemic, there is a call for research on responsible leadership. While significant advances have been made in recent years towards a better understanding of the concept, a gap exists in the understanding of responsible leadership in emerging countries, specifically how leaders resolve prevalent moral dilemmas. Following Werhane (1999), we use moral imagination as an analytical approach to analyze a dilemmatic stakeholder conflict (between indigenous communities in rural India and an emerging market multinational enterprise headquartered in the same country) through the lense of different responsible leadership mindsets and in light of different ethical principles and moral background theories. Based on this analysis, we arrive at a tentative moral judgement, concluding that the instrumental approach is morally inferior and recommending the integrative approach as the morally superior choice. In the subsequent discussion—focussed on what “could” (instead of “should”) be done, we apply the integrative script and use moral imagination as a pathway for generating morally justifiable solutions. Through this analysis, we provide novel insights on how to apply an integrative responsible leadership approach to a stakeholder conflict situation, using the single case study to expand the responsible leadership discussion to emerging markets.

鉴于巨大的社会挑战，尤其是最近的全球 Covid-19 大流行，人们呼吁对负责任的领导力进行研究。尽管近年来在更好地理解这一概念方面取得了重大进展，但新兴国家对负责任的领导力的理解仍存在差距，特别是领导人如何解决普遍的道德困境。继Werhane（1999）之后，我们使用道德想象力作为分析方法，通过不同负责任的领导思维的视角，并结合以下因素来分析陷入困境的利益相关者冲突（印度农村的土著社区与总部位于同一国家的新兴市场跨国企业之间）。不同的伦理原则和道德背景理论。基于这一分析，我们得出了初步的道德判断，得出工具性方法在道德上较差的结论，并推荐综合性方法作为道德上优越的选择。在随后的讨论中——重点是“可以”（而不是“应该”）做什么，我们应用综合脚本并使用道德想象力作为产生道德上合理的解决方案的途径。通过这一分析，我们提供了关于如何将综合负责任的领导方法应用于利益相关者冲突情况的新颖见解，并使用单个案例研究将负责任的领导力讨论扩展到新兴市场。