The topic of nonprofit succession management has gained increasing research attention in recent years. However, the organizational implementation rate is often low – and even where present, may be mere “lip service.” Previous studies field mostly focus on role boards or executive directors management. Grounded shared leadership theory, this study takes a broader perspective, stresses responsibi...

This article contrasts the assumptions of General Systems Theory, the framework for much prior leadership research, with those of Complexity Theory, to further develop the latter's implications for the definition of leadership and the leadership process. We propose that leadership in a Complex Adaptive System (CAS) may affect the organization indirectly, through the mediating variables of organ...

Correspondence: Maura MacPhee University of British Columbia, T201-2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T2B5, Canada Tel +1 604 822 2891 Fax +1 604 822 7466 Email [email protected] Abstract: This paper provides an overview of trends associated with global health care leadership development. Accompanying these trends are propositions based on current available evidence. T...

Integrating leadership theories and understanding the interactions between these is a goal for many scholars. The dark side of has become topic interest researchers practitioners alike in recent years. Dark likened to poison an organization, embedding toxins company’s culture instilling deep-rooted behaviors, attitudes, actions that are source internal organizational decay. After viewing brief ...

Departing from past research on managers’ influence employees’ informal leadership emergence, we explore the mechanism of how distributed enhances individual emergence a cognitive perspective. Drawing upon identity construction theory and role theory, theoretically developed empirically tested serial mediation model. It examines promotes via empowerment enacted leader identity. Using three-wave...