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Spyridonidis, Dimitrios, Côté, Nancy, Currie, Graeme and Denis, Jean-Louis (2022) Leadership configuration in crises : lessons from the English response to COVID-19. Leadership, 18 (5). doi:10.1177/17427150221126780 ISSN 1742-7150.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150221126780
Abstract
Our study examines the empirical case of the political leadership response to Covid-19 in England. It shows that, rather than the ideal configuration of leadership suggested by theory, within which individualistic and collective leadership blend, a less balanced configuration emerged that can be characterised as incoherent. In England, an individual political leader behaved in an authoritarian way, which ignored evidence about how to address Covid-19. So, rather than an individual orchestrating a collective leadership effort to address complex issues, leadership was rendered fragmented and chaotic. We suggest that the English context, characterised by populist tendencies and neoliberal economic policy, shaped the poor leadership response to Covid-19.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JA Political science (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Political aspects, Leadership , Populism , Public health administration | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Leadership | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1742-7150 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 18 | ||||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/17427150221126780 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 October 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 12 October 2022 |
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