Leadership and Organisational Culture in Development - Challenging Exceptionalism

This book uses organisational theory as a window for exploring how power and leadership operates in development organisations in different contexts, and at different levels. Itexamines development exceptionalism and the leadership fetishism that it evokes as a panacea for addressing disorder and crisis.

List of contents

Introduction, 1: ‘Just Add Culture’?, 2: Development Exceptionalism, 3: Development Organisationalism, 4: Ordering a Disordered World: Discourses and Rhetorics of Leadership, 5: ‘When Things Go Wrong’: Ideologues of Leadership as Development Deficit and Asset, Conclusion: Development Exceptionalism and the Leadership Fetish

About the author

Violeta Schubert is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Summary

This book uses organisational theory as a window for exploring how power and leadership operates in development organisations in different contexts, and at different levels. Itexamines development exceptionalism and the leadership fetishism that it evokes as a panacea for addressing disorder and crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Violeta Schubert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032306025
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230602-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Developing Countries, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, Development Studies, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Global South / Developing countries