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Mats Alvesson
Professor
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The perils of authentic leadership theory
Författare
Summary, in English
In this commentary, we discuss perils of authentic leadership theory (ALT) in a modest effort to help weed out one theory that has gone amiss to pave the way for new ideas. We make an argument for why ALT is not only wrong in a harmless manner, but it may be outright perilous to leadership scholars, scholarship and those who believe in it. It may undermine academic work, delegitimize university institutions, make false promises to organizations, and cause identity trouble through encouraging managers and others overeager to live up to the proposed formula. We argue that leadership and authenticity should be kept separate as interests and themes of study.
Avdelning/ar
- Organisation
Publiceringsår
2021-08-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
483-490
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Leadership
Volym
17
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Business Administration
Nyckelord
- Authenticity
- critique
- identity
- leadership
- research
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1742-7150