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Silva, Jose Bento da (2020) Institutional leadership—the historical case study of a religious organisation. In: Askeland, H. and Espedal, G. and Jelstad Løvaas, B. and Sirris, S., (eds.) Understanding Values Work : Institutional Perspectives in Organizations and Leadership. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81-95. ISBN 9783030377472
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37748-9_5
Abstract
In this chapter, I discuss institutional leadership vis-à-vis the value of poverty. To do so, I analyse how poverty has been conceptualised within a Catholic religious organisation, the Jesuits. The chapter shows that, in the Jesuit case, poverty is not strictly defined. Instead, poverty results from the constant dialogue between the individual Jesuit and their leader. This means that the understanding of what constitutes poverty is neither explicit nor implicit. The chapter contributes to our understanding of institutional leadership as the promotion and protection of values, as per Selznick’s classical definition. However, we discuss a less known part of Selznick’s work in which the ambiguous character of values is highlighted. In this sense, and after the Jesuit case, we advance the possibility that the promotion and protection of institutional values by institutional leaders does not necessarily imply the definition of what a value is. As values are not defined beforehand but the result of a constant dialogue between the leader and their followers, institutional leadership can be revisited and freed from the heroic view that has long characterised it.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Power (Social sciences) , Leadership, Leadership -- Religious aspects , Religious leaders, Values -- Religious aspects | ||||||||
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | Cham | ||||||||
ISBN: | 9783030377472 | ||||||||
Book Title: | Understanding Values Work : Institutional Perspectives in Organizations and Leadership | ||||||||
Editor: | Askeland, H. and Espedal, G. and Jelstad Løvaas, B. and Sirris, S. | ||||||||
Official Date: | 15 February 2020 | ||||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 81-95 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-37748-9_5 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 30 March 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 March 2020 | ||||||||
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