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Women Leaders in Chaotic Environments

Examinations of Leadership Using Complexity Theory

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Şefika Şule Erçetin

    1. International Science Association (ISCASS), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

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  • Examines the historical decision making process of women leaders
  • Provides a unique analysis of historical cases of women leaders with chaos theory
  • Discusses women’s leadership in the context of their environments and historical backgrounds
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Women Leaders Shape Past, Present and Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Şefika Şule Erçetin
      Pages 3-8

    3. Emine Erdoğan: The Woman Power Behind Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

      • Şefika Şule Erçetin, Şuay Nilhan Açıkalın
      Pages 9-19

    4. Foreign Policy Decision Making as a Chaotic Phenomenon: Angela Merkel’s Foreign Policy Between 2005–2009

      • Şuay Nilhan Açıkalın
      Pages 21-34

    5. “President Vigdís”: The End and the Beginning of Women’s Agenda in Iceland

      • Inga Minelgaite Snaebjornsson
      Pages 35-47

    6. Hazrat Aisha: In Terms of Religious, Authentic and Didactic Leadership Characteristics

      • Mehmet Menteşe, Mehmet Cem Şahin
      Pages 49-59

    7. Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Through Womanhood

      • Daniels Aide Okun
      Pages 61-69

    8. A Woman Leader in Ottoman History: Kösem Sultan (1589–1651)

      • Aylin Görgün-Baran
      Pages 71-86

    9. Rosa Louise Parks as a Quiet Leader Who Transforms American Society Forever

      • Kenan İli
      Pages 87-98

    10. Benazir Bhutto-Freedom and Chaos in Her Life

      • İlknur Maya
      Pages 99-108

    11. Maria Montessori’s Transformation of Special Needs Education

      • İbrahim Bello, İbrahim Bashar
      Pages 109-116

    12. Rebecca Kadaga’s Transformation of Uganda’s Parliamentary System

      • Sophie Nanyonga
      Pages 117-124

  3. Issues in Women Leadership

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Women Leadership in Complex Social Media and Social Networking Systems

      • Şefika Şule Erçetin, Ssali Muhammadi Bisaso
      Pages 127-142

    3. Women’s Leadership in the Developing World: Learning from the Past, Envisioning the Future

      • Purnima Mehta Bhatt
      Pages 143-167

    4. Women Empowerment for Promoting Rural Economy in West Bengal: A Study on Pallimangal (A Unit of Ramakrishna Mission Kamarpukur)

      • Dillip Kumar Das, Nilanjan Ray
      Pages 169-184

    5. A Complex Issue in the Turkish Education System: Gender Imparity (2000–2015 Period)

      • Şefika Şule Erçetin, Kübra Sarıkaya Aydın
      Pages 185-206

    6. Gendered Leadership in Multinational Corporations: Gendered Social-Organizations: An Analysis of a Gendered Foundation in Organizations

      • Ben Tran
      Pages 207-233

    7. The Role of Women Professionals in Transformation of Higher Education for Sustainable Development

      • Ssali Muhammadi Bisaso
      Pages 235-247
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About this book

This book spotlights how women leaders behave in chaotic environments and features examples of women who have been key figures in determining complex socio-economic outcomes throughout history. Women leaders can be seen on many high- levels in the political arena, be they a prime minister, empress or opinion leader. From Kösem Sultan of the Ottoman Empire to Benazir Bhutto, women leaders have had an undeniable effect on modern history. Is it possible to understand the current role of women in politics in Turkey without the First Lady Emine Erdoğan?  Can we analyze Europe’s future without Angela Merkel? There are many different books about women leaders' biography or memoirs of persons who worked closely with them. However, until now, no in-depth scientific analysis of such women leaders with respect to chaos and complexity theory has been available. This work represents a unique and important step towards filling this gap in research, and includes an epilogue presenting women’s leadership model visualized by an eight-pointed star.


Editors and Affiliations

  • International Science Association (ISCASS), Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

    Şefika Şule Erçetin

About the editor

Prof. Dr. Şefika Şule ERÇETİN graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social  Sciences Department of Business Administration at Anadolu University in 1984. In 1987 she started  working as a research assistant at the Division of Educational Administration, Supervision, Planning,  and Economics in Hacettepe University and completed her doctoral degree in 1991. In 1994 she was  invited to be a visiting scholar by the University of Texas at Austin. She is editor-in-chief of different  national and international journals and has been involved in and headed various international and  national collaboration projects. She is one of the few academics in Turkey to focus on “chaos,  complexity, quantum leadership” since 1990. She is the president, board member and founder  member of the International Science Association (ISCASS).


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