Travelling Leadership Ideas as a Business Virus

Birgit Helene Jevnaker () and Johan Olaisen ()
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Birgit Helene Jevnaker: BI Norwegian Business School
Johan Olaisen: BI Norwegian Business School

Chapter Chapter 2 in Reimagining Sustainable Organization, 2022, pp 31-54 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Virtually identical management ideas seem to crop up simultaneously in similar organizations globally, in what ways can this phenomenon be understood? Leaders in organizations may play a more active role than those often depicted in the management fashion theory. The encounter between thought and practice may be lasting; beliefs may affect training and practice. The ideas may represent a trade-off between business strategy, leadership, and employees. We keep acceptable and adequate ideas while we drop unacceptable and inadequate plans. The ideas work like a sensitizing concept of directions along which to look for temporary order and stability, as well as potential change. Adopting a business idea is like a virus spreading worldwide, leaving an enormous impact through global corporations and societies. In this chapter, we study management ideas in a selection of top Scandinavian corporations to generate and discuss 8 relevant hypotheses. The same ideas might reach public institutions like universities and hospitals. In public institutions, they might present as a form of New Public Management or merely a way of managing, e.g. universities or hospitals through a magic business virus, creating what looks like similar strategies found in private businesses.

Keywords: Travelling ideas; Fashion theory; Virus theory; Digitalization; Sustainability; Flexible workplaces; Project management agility; Trust-based leadership; Value-based leadership; Business spirituality; Business modernity; Mysticism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96210-4_2

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