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When Top Management Leadership Matters: Insights From Artistic Interventions
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Abstract This article addresses how top management leadership behaviors matter in innovative interventions in organizations. A comparison of six cases of artistic interventions in four countries reveals that lack of visible top management support and sense-making orientation during and after the process resu... view more
This article addresses how top management leadership behaviors matter in innovative interventions in organizations. A comparison of six cases of artistic interventions in four countries reveals that lack of visible top management support and sense-making orientation during and after the process resulted in little added value for the organization in three cases. Three other cases show various ways in which top management can legitimize such experimentation, from which more positive outcomes flowed at the individual and collective levels. The implications are counter-intuitive because top management faces two sets of tensions in innovative processes: presence/absence and providing orientation/being open to learning. The article suggests ways that top managers can address these tensions, including by engaging in constellations of distributed leadership, for which this article proposes a new definition.... view less
Keywords
business management; management; innovation; organizational development; learning organization
Classification
Management Science
Free Keywords
artistic interventions; distributed leadership; sensemaking; top management
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 441-457
Journal
Journal of Management Inquiry, 28 (2019) 4
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/167334
ISSN
1552-6542
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
With the permission of the rights owner, this publication is under open access due to a (DFG-/German Research Foundation-funded) national or Alliance license.