عنوان

Managing without leadership :

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0080456685

(Number (ISBN

1280630078

(Number (ISBN

6610630070

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9780080456683

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9781280630071

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9786610630073

Erroneous ISBN

0080433529

Erroneous ISBN

9780080433523

Number

b771450

Title Proper

Managing without leadership :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

towards a theory of organizational functioning /

First Statement of Responsibility

Gabriele Lakomski.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

San Diego, CA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Elsevier,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2005.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiv, 159 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Why We Can Manage without Leadership -- Introduction -- From leader behaviors to transformational leadership -- Empiricist science and leadership -- Leadership and organizational culture -- Reconsidering culture as cognitive process -- Distributed leadership -- Conclusion -- References -- Postmodernist Leadership -- Introduction -- Postmodernism in organization theory and educational administration -- Problems of postmodernist theory and practice -- The alleged primacy of discourse and the construction of self -- The neural self -- Conclusion -- References -- Leadership, Organizational Culture and Change -- Introduction -- Organization and culture -- The special case of culture in cross-cultural management -- Schein's conception of organizational culture and leadership -- Some inconsistencies -- Cultural cognition or cognitive culture: two sides of one coin -- Organizing in context -- Organizations and change -- Conclusion -- References -- Substituted or Distributed: The End of Leadership as We Know It? -- Introduction -- The substitutes for leadership view -- Distributed leadership: an idea whose time has come? -- Distributed leadership and distributed cognition -- The theory of cognition -- Naturalism and leadership -- Conclusion -- References -- Managing Organizational Knowledge -- Introduction -- The promise of Knowledge Management -- The two dimensions of Knowledge Management -- The dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation -- Netting human cognition -- Communities of practice and collective knowledge -- Managing more than we can tell? -- Conclusion -- References -- Moving Knowledge: What is Transfer? -- Introduction -- S̀̀ticky'' transfer -- Situated learning and transfer -- The meshing of mind and world -- How to determine a [task] environment -- Environment as activity space -- Conclusion -- References -- Organization, Emergence and Design -- Introduction -- Cooperation and coordination: the twin problems of organization -- On the pheromone trail: from simple rules to complex outcomes -- Swarm intelligence, emergence and self-organization -- The logic of patches -- Patching, real world, and organization design -- Conclusion -- References -- A Road Map to Managing without Leadership -- References -- Subject Index -- Last Page.

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Text of Note

Argues that leadership as traditionally understood does not explain organizational functioning. Drawing on coherentist epistemology, connectionism, and the theory of self-organizing dynamic systems, a naturalistic account of organizational functioning is explored that includes leaders as non-privileged agents in the fabric of organizational life.

Title

Managing without leadership.

International Standard Book Number

0080433529

Leadership.

Organizational effectiveness.

Efficacité organisationnelle.

Leadership.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Corporate Governance.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Leadership.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Organizational Development.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Workplace Culture.

Leadership.

Leiderschap.

Organisatietheorie.

Organizational effectiveness.

BUS-- 071000

BUS-- 097000

BUS-- 103000

BUS-- 104000

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Edition

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Book number

Lakomski, Gabriele.

Date of Transaction

20201206172453.0

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[Book]

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