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Systemic Leadership: Ethical and Effective

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Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics ((IBET,volume 27))

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Editors’ Introduction

This volume devotes a number of chapters to the possible productive interface that there may be between systemic thinking, leadership, and gender. Systems thinking help us understand the relational networks and dynamics that individuals encounter within organizations, and hence provide us with clues as to why leadership patterns emerge in specific ways. The next few chapters present us with a more theoretical overview of systems thinking and explain the notion of “systemic leadership”. After we have made the claims and assumptions of this approach clear, we will move towards a more focused discussion of what systemic leadership offer both male and female leaders in various contexts. In this first theoretical exposé of systemic leadership, Collier and Esteban propose that in postindustrial economies, “systemic leadership,” that is, leading from the middle of an organization and managing that system, its human participants and its paradoxes – creates solid and sustainable communities where participatory management is successfully achieved.

Reprinted from The Leadership & Organization Development Journal 2000, 21(4):207–215.

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  1. Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 1AG, UK

    Jane Collier

  2. Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, CB1 1PT, UK

    Rafael Esteban

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  1. School of Business, De Paul University, Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, 60614, Illinois, USA

    Patricia Werhane

  2. Dept. Philosophy, DePaul University, N. Clifton Ave. 2352, Chicago, 60614, Illinois, USA

    Mollie Painter-Morland

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Collier, J., Esteban, R. (2011). Systemic Leadership: Ethical and Effective. In: Werhane, P., Painter-Morland, M. (eds) Leadership, Gender, and Organization. Issues in Business Ethics, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9014-0_5

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