Ziel dieses Forschungsvorhabens war es, Erfolgsfaktoren für das unternehmerische Krisenmanagement zu ermitteln. Die Forschungshypothese "In der Krise beweist sich der Charakter" hat sich insofern bestätigt, als deutlich wurde, dass auf der einen Seite die Persönlichkeit des...

Decision-making is a multidisciplinary and ubiquitous phenomenon in organizations, and it can be observed at the individual, group, and organizational levels. Decision making plays, however, an increasingly important role for the manager, whose cognitive competence is reflected in his ability to...

This article introduces readers to a new approach to leadership that has come on the scene in recent years, and it is called “Leadership-as-Practice.” As an offshoot of the so-called “practice turn” in the social sciences, referring to the study of everyday activities, it challenges some...

The practice perspective of leadership de-emphasizes purpose and rather recognizes pre-reflective forms of intentionality carried out in embodied practices that may be subsequently guided by democratic, emancipatory, and reflexive processes. Although leadership-as-practice should be classified...

Fearing that our overreliance on an individual, heroic model of leadership will only continue to dampen the energy and creativity of people in our organizations and communities, this essay proposes a practice perspective of leadership based on a collaborative agency mobilized through engaged...

In this article a new role for managers is advocated to create conditions for genuine collaborative engagement in 21st Century organizations. The new role is as a facilitator of emancipatory dialogue, a discourse among parties that can lead to mutual learning, deep understanding and insight, and...

This article takes up an important question that has puzzled learning theorists in the critical tradition, namely, are the dialogic practices of emancipatory discourse sufficient to change oppressive conditions in the power structure of the modern organization? In other words, can critical...

In this essay the author through a curation of articles drawn largely from the archives of the Academy of Management guides readers through the early foundations, principles, and theory of the new field of leadership-as-practice or L-A-P. The field is shown to have evolved through a history of...

Organizational culture is a critical factor in shaping companies' overall well-being, which can impact their employees' job satisfaction, loyalty, creativity, and productivity. In this study, the researchers aimed to examine the relationship between organizational culture and companies'...