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Article: Leadership as social integrative action. A study of a computer consultancy company.
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- Organization Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 1992
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Mats Alvesson Department of Business Administration, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract
In this paper it is suggested that leadership, at least in some types of organizations, can be conceptualized as social integrative action. Such action is seen as a synthesis of institutional and human relations-ofiented leadership. A case study of a computer consultancy company, a professional service adhocracy, supports this argument. This paper also argues for viewing leadership as an expression of those values, virtues, norms and symbolic guidelines for understanding that are usually referred to as corporate culture or ideology. Leadership is consequently ...
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