The power of a stewardship mind: Reorienting organizations around the duty to care to better address grand challenges

The present article presents an integrative review related to stewardship in all thebusinessandmanagementdisciplines,fromitsinitialdevelopmentin1980 tothepresent.Specifically,weappliedalatentDirichletallocation-basedtopic modelling analysis to almost 1200 articles, seeking to creatively synthesize the concept of stewardship around the two recurring building blocks of the psy- chological contract defined in the literature: the duty to care and the related psychologicalcurrencies.Fromthisfoundation,weproposethenovelconceptof thestewardshipmind:awayofthinkingcharacterizedbytheintentiontobecred- ibleandconsistentinfulfillingadutytocareofsomethingofvalue,motivated byacertaindegreeofideologicalcurrency.Wearticulatethisconceptfurtherby providing a taxonomy of stewardship minds, ranging from mainly instrumen- taltomainlyideological.Thistaxonomymayhelpinspiremanagerstointegrate stewardship into their daily actions and communications. In fact, we advance thatagenuinestewardshipmindhasthemostpotentialtotacklegrandsocietal and environmental challenges. We also discuss an array of avenues for future research.