Leading in the Paradoxical World of Crises: How Leaders Navigate Through Crises.

ABSTRACT: Living and operating in a global world, the risk for a global economic crisis has never been greater. As ongoing events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the recent war in Ukraine or the sharply increasing inflation have shown, organizations need to be highly resilient to persevere in a crisis-prone world. Even though we know that crises serve as a focal lens on leadership behavior and leaders play a crucial role in these scenarios, little is known as to how leaders handle an existence-threatening organizational crisis. Using an inductive analysis of 32 interviews on crisis leadership, we show that in the case of an acute crisis, leaders apply different paradoxical behaviors to cope effectively with the situation and navigate their organizations through these events. More specifically, our s

SUBMITTER: Forster C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9755787 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature