'Exit or Voice are not the only options' In: Theorizing About an AOM President’s Response to Crisis and the Counter Responses It Evoked / Bartunek et al
Journal
Journal of Management Inquiry
Subject
Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Publishing details
Authors / Editors
Markides C
Biographies
Publication Year
2019
Abstract
Organizational crises have often stimulated scholarly theorizing that has been productive for our field. Rarely, however, are there opportunities to theorize regarding crises that happen in our own professional associations. A crisis experienced by Professor Anita McGahan when she was the President of the Academy of Management, described in an accompanying article, has presented such an opportunity. In this set of nine brief reflections, several scholars have considered how McGahan’s actions with regard to that crisis can be understood conceptually and how they may stimulate development of previously established conceptual perspectives. These reflections make evident that McGahan’s actions cannot be appreciated without recognition of the complex dilemmas to which she was responding. These dilemmas include issues of trustworthy leadership, gendered power, leader voice, sensemaking and learning, organizational identities, psychological contracts, institutional leadership, and “good bureaucracy.”
Keywords
moral dilemmas; institutional leadership; organizational crisis; psychological contracts; gender; identity; leadership
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