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Gabriele Lakomski
Managing without Leadership [PDF ebook]
Towards a Theory of Organizational Functioning

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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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Format PDF ● Pages 168 ● ISBN 9780080456683 ● Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited ● Published 2004 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8100434 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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