Leadership and Organisational Culture in Development: Challenging Exceptionalism

ISBN-13: 9780367422578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str.

Violeta Schubert

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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