Leading in Inter-Organizational Networks
Towards a Reflexive Practice
Bände/Inhalt:
- 1 The need for reflexive leadership in inter-organizational networks -- 2 Theoretical foundations of leadership in networks -- 3 Reconstructing leadership in networks as a reflexive practice -- 4 Methodology -- 5 A practice-theoretical model of reflexive leadership in networks -- 6 Case study I: Peripheral -- 7 Case study II: Urban -- 8 Discussion -- 9 Conclusion.
- In view of the rising importance and prevalence of network-based collaboration, this book aims to meet the need for more theory in this area. Theoretically conceptualizing and empirically describing the practice of reflexive leadership in inter-organisational networks, it explores how member organisations approach reflexive leadership and the associated challenges. Examining these questions from wider leadership theory perspectives as well as a tighter focus upon inter-organizational networks, the author specifically explores how reflexive leadership can be sustained and how social and political contexts may obstruct or support its use, acceptance and practice. Based on in-depth qualitative empirical fieldwork in the Swiss healthcare sector, the book offers a novel practice-theoretical model for use in inter-organizational networks.