Gordon, Raymond D

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Using a critical management framework I provide a genealogical account of a police organization’sattempt to implement what senior officers in its behavioural change division described as a dispersedleadership (Bryman, 1996; Gordon, 2002) strategy. I describe the organization and provide a detailedaccount of the dynamics that emerge as groups and individuals who historically held positions of powerfound themselves reporting to one of many designated leaders. The account depicts how the organization’sdispersion of leadership, while on the surface represents a new and successful endeavour, is renderedproblematic by the organization’s historical constitution of po

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Dispersed leadership power and change: An empirical study using a critical management framework

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Dispersed leadership power and change: An empirical study using a critical management framework

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