We consider a leader and a subordinate he appoints who engage in team production. The public observes the organization's performance, but is unable to determine the separate contributions of the leader and of the subordinate. The leader may therefore claim credit for the good work of his...

Leaders play crucial roles in their enterprises. Most modern organizations today, such as corporations and government departments, have no leaders. About 80% of all organizations have no top structures, and are run by inertia as leaderless organizations. These organizations have pretense-pseudo...

Die Studie widmet sich der Analyse der latent hinter den Regelungsinhalten deutschsprachiger Führungsgrundsätze wirkenden Sinn- und Bedeutungsdimension. Unter Rückgriff auf qualitativ-hermeneutische und argumentationsanalytische Methoden werden die unhinterfragten und typisierten...

This text briefly depicts the history of an encounter between anthropology and organization theory in the Anglo-Saxon literature in the period 1990-2010 as seen by an organization scholar. In focus are some stable characteristics and some changes in this relationship, against the background of...