"This book uses organisational theory as a window for exploring how power and leadership operates in development organisations in different contexts, and at different levels. Culture as a tool for enacting change is of particular importance within organisational and leadership analysis but often limiting. Notions of exceptionalism within the development sector mean that lessons from other organisational contexts are often disregarded or deemed irrelevant. In examining the way that culture operates in organisational and leadership analysis and in development thinking and approaches, the book invites closer attention to modes of organising and leading. The book examines development exceptionalism and the leadership fetishism that it evokes as a panacea foraddressing disorder and crisis. The term organisationalism is deployed to capture the endeavours to control and manage, produce and reproduce organisations, and the manifestations, responses and imprints of seeing like an organisation that are especiallynotable in times of crisis and accusations of wrongdoings, bad culture and bad leadership. This book makes an important contribution to debates on development exceptionalism and leadership and as such will be of interest to researchers in development studies and management studies, and related disciplines across sociology, politics, and global governance"--
This book uses organisational theory as a window for exploring how power and leadership operates in development organisations in different contexts, and at different levels. Itexamines development exceptionalism and the leadership fetishism that it evokes as a panacea for addressing disorder and crisis.
Introduction, 1: Just Add Culture?, 2: Development Exceptionalism, 3:
Development Organisationalism, 4: Ordering a Disordered World: Discourses and
Rhetorics of Leadership, 5: When Things Go Wrong: Ideologues of Leadership
as Development Deficit and Asset, Conclusion: Development Exceptionalism and
the Leadership Fetish
Violeta Schubert is Senior Lecturer at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.