1st Edition
Leadership and Organisational Culture in Development Challenging Exceptionalism
By Violeta Schubert
Copyright 2023
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book uses organisational theory to explore how power and leadership operate in development organisations in different contexts and at different levels.
Culture as a tool for enacting change is of particular importance within organisational and leadership analysis but often limiting. Notions of exceptionalism within the development sector mean that lessons from other organisational... Read more
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
Biography
Violeta Schubert is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.
