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Series:   Elements in Leadership

Leadership Studies and the Desire for Shared Agreement

A Narrative Inquiry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2019

Stan Amaladas

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Beginning with the belief that the study of leadership belongs to all and to no one in particular, the author offers twenty-seven stable and unchanging elements for the study of leadership, and collects them under four themes: context, shared purpose, language, and human agency. He (a) argues that the rational interest in making our world a better place cuts across all academic disciplines/boundaries, (b) grounds the quest for an integrated theory of leadership in the Desire for Shared Agreement, and (c) offers the possibility that this Desire as a Governing Standard can potentially unite the multiple approaches to leadership studies.
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Series: Elements in Leadership
Online ISBN: 9781108758482
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 11 July 2019

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