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Global leadership - sustaining classic managerialism

Sveningsson, Stefan LU and Alvesson, Mats LU (2020) In Elger Original Reference Series p.39-53
Abstract
This chapter critically discusses the currently celebrated and seemingly successful trend of global leadership. We claim that part of the answer to why global leadership has become so successful lies in how it is framed and presented as an all-embracing and intuitively good discourse closely aligned with the traditional leader-centred view on leadership in general. While this makes the discourse of global leadership appealing and seductive it also maintains what the chapter suggests to be classic managerialism – emphasis on the manager as the central hub of which everything else in organizations revolves - inherent in much general leadership research. The chapter aims at problematizing this orientation and demystifying global leadership by... (More)
This chapter critically discusses the currently celebrated and seemingly successful trend of global leadership. We claim that part of the answer to why global leadership has become so successful lies in how it is framed and presented as an all-embracing and intuitively good discourse closely aligned with the traditional leader-centred view on leadership in general. While this makes the discourse of global leadership appealing and seductive it also maintains what the chapter suggests to be classic managerialism – emphasis on the manager as the central hub of which everything else in organizations revolves - inherent in much general leadership research. The chapter aims at problematizing this orientation and demystifying global leadership by conceptualizing much of it as an ideological project. In contrast to this the chapter offer a more practice-oriented view on global leadership that includes a much stronger focus on relations, interactions and processes. The latter also suggesting that leadership is a socially constructive influencing process involving meaning, ideas, values and feelings. (Less)
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Global leadership, managerialism
host publication
Research Handbook of Global Leadership: Making a difference
series title
Elger Original Reference Series
editor
Zander, Lena
pages
15 pages
publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
external identifiers
  • scopus:85107916590
ISBN
9781782545347
9781782545354
DOI
10.4337/9781782545354.00011
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English
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  editor       = {{Zander, Lena}},
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  title        = {{Global leadership - sustaining classic managerialism}},
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  doi          = {{10.4337/9781782545354.00011}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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