Managing Without Leadership: Towards a Theory of Organizational Functioning

By Gabriele Lakomski and Lakomski

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0080433529
• ISBN13: 9780080433523
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.7"