Managing Without Leadership: Towards A Theory Of Organizational Functioning - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0080433529 ISBN 13: 9780080433523

Casa editrice: Emerald Group Pub Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

A critical examination of leadership theories past and present, "Managing without Leadership" argues that leadership as traditionally understood does not explain organizational functioning. Bounded by empiricist assumptions and methodology, and including a narrow theory of mind as symbol processor, leadership theories are unable to support their claims about leaders and their actions. Drawing on coherentist epistemology, connectionism, and the theory of self-organizing dynamic systems, a naturalistic account of organizational functioning and organization design is explored that includes leaders as non-privileged agents in the cognitive fabric of organizational life.

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Recensione

"Managing Without Leadership challenges orthodox thinking about leadership provoking scholars in the field to re-examine the epistemological assumptions that underpin their work." - Professor James Spillane, Northwestern University, US

Contenuti

Explaining Organizational Functioning: Leadership's Past and Present.
Why We Can Manage without Leadership, Postmodernist Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Culture and Change, Substituted or Distributed: The End of Leadership as We Know It?

Explaining Organizational Functioning: Moving beyond Leadership.
Managing Organizational Knowledge, Moving Knowledge: What is transfer?, Organization, Emergence and Design, A Road Map to Managing without Leadership.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Emerald Group Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0080433529
• ISBN 13: 9780080433523
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 159
• Redattore: Lakomski Gabriele
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile