Books written by Anders Örtenblad

Professionalizing Leadership: Debating Education, Certification and Practice

The list stands on leadership writing's “axioms” or micro-foundations: knowledge, practice, community/society, individuals, ethics. Leadership is a term we use to point to managed relations between these axioms.
Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies

In honor of Morgan’s classic text, this edited volume, Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies (by Anders Örtenblad, Kiran Trehan, and Linda L. Putnam), illustrates how Morgan’s eight ...
Exploring Morgan’s Metaphors: Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies

Theory, Research, and Practice in Organizational Studies Anders Örtenblad, Kiran Trehan, Linda L. Putnam ... There are a vast number of studies that have used metaphors for analyzing various phenomena in the area of higher education.
Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations: Adopt, Abandon or Adapt?

Neither evangelist nor nihilist, the book instead considers how these innovations might be adapted for the specific task of providing healthcare. Where evidence on these points is available, the book outlines that too.
The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization

The twelve organizational capabilities and their relationships. Source: After Garratt (2010). dimensions and differential measures to track. These gave us the basic metrics needed to follow change trends unique to that organization.
Research Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility in Context

Or would such a definition need to be adapted to fit different types of organizations, in different cultures, industries and sectors? This book discusses how CSR should preferably be practiced.
Handbook of Research on Management Ideas and Panaceas: Adaptation and Context

This Handbook provides a different approach, suggesting that management ideas and panaceas should not be either adopted or rejected outright, but gives guidance in the art of assessing and applying management ideas and panaceas to various ...
Gender Equality in a Global Perspective

This book is situated within the tradition of comparative gender studies.
Gender Equality in a Global Perspective

Her main research interests are violence against women and children, gender equality and victim's access to justice. ... Aid) in the Indo-Pacific region focusing on gender mainstreaming, women's leadership and gender-based violence.
The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization

This Handbook offers extensive reviews of both new and traditional perspectives on the concept and provides suggestions for how the learning organization can best be defined, practiced, studied, and developed in future research.
Debating Bad Leadership: Reasons and Remedies

Meta-analysis of dark side personality characteristics and critical work behaviors among leaders across the globe: Findings and implications for leadership development and executive coaching. Applied Psychology, 64(1), 25–54.
Higher Education in the High North: Academic Exchanges between Norway and Russia

16) This chapter focuses on the paradoxes of pursuing internationalization that arise as a result of the different perspectives from which the generally accepted definition of internationalization of higher education are driven.
Management Innovations for Healthcare Organizations: Adopt, Abandon or Adapt?

The ultimate goal is to eventually create a culture where Shared Leadership is the accepted leadership style in healthcare teams. ... Evaluating the development of a multidisciplinary leadership team in a cancer-center.
Handbook of Research on Knowledge Management: Adaptation and Context

ity and use of analytical and social skills. knowledge work encompasses both what is traditionally referred to as professional work and also more contemporary types of work. In these kinds of work, knowledge acts as the main input into ...
The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization

Action Learning for Developing Leaders and Organizations. Washington, DC: APA Press. Marquardt, M., and R. Yeo. 2012. Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. Nonaka, I. 2008.
Handbook of Research on the Learning Organization: Adaptation and Context

This timely Handbook establishes the ‘contextualization’ of the learning organization idea as a research field.
Against Entrepreneurship: A Critical Examination

Schumpeter's work, while introducing terms and framings crucial for entrepreneurship studies, was firmly rooted in the author's ... According to modern classics, such as Bengt Johannisson (2005), entrepreneurship relies on transgressing ...
Research Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility in Context

... pragmatic dreamers, business leaders who practice what Brain/ Mind researcher and author Marilyn Ferguson calls 'pragmagic'. Anderson was not the first radical business leader, nor perhaps even the most radical. The late Anita Roddick ...
Debating Equal Pay for All: Economy, Practicability and Ethics

This book is the first one to be published in the book series Palgrave Debates in Business and Management.
Debating Business School Legitimacy: Attacking, Rocking, and Defending the Status Quo

This book channels the debate on the relevance, value, and future of business schools. Could the Business School be like the Titanic, thought to be unsinkable, but ultimately doomed? And if it sinks, what of it?