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Understanding Leadership in Complex Systems

A Praxeological Perspective

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Authors:
  1. Terje Andreas Tonsberg

    1. Petroleum Training Center, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Safat, Kuwait

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  2. Jeffrey Shawn Henderson

    1. Monarch Business School Switzerland, Zug, Switzerland

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  • Provides a fresh theoretical perspective on leadership
  • Establishes a systematic framework on leadership in light of complex social systems
  • Espouses an alternative methodological view on social science
  • Presents a novel way to look at regularity in social systems
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Subjective Theory of Value and Praxeology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Menger’s Subjective Theory of Value: Choice Under Uncertainty

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 3-4

    3. Mises’ Praxeology

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 5-6

    4. Mises’ Apriorism

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 7-8

    5. The Universality of Praxeology

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 9-12

    6. Praxeology and Leadership

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 13-14

    7. Leadership as a Process of Exchange Under Uncertainty

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 15-17

    8. Discussion Scope and Outline

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 19-21

  3. The Principles and Methods of Mises’ Praxeology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-25
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    2. Methodological Apriorism

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 27-40

    3. Methodological Principles Regarding the Role of Empirical Data in Praxeology

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 41-74

    4. The Theory of Human Action, Its A Priori Categories and Assumptions

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 75-98

    5. Methodological Procedures in Praxeology

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 99-120

    6. Distinguishing Features of Praxeology

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 121-123

  4. Entrepreneurship, Imitation and Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-128
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    2. Praxeology Versus Social Evolution as A Priori Frameworks

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 129-131

    3. Entrepreneurship as Evolution of Action

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 133-135

    4. The Ultimate A Priori of Discovery

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 137-139

    5. The Logic of Perceived Possibilities—Praxeology and the Process of Evolutionary Learning

      • Terje Andreas Tonsberg, Jeffrey Shawn Henderson
      Pages 141-143
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This work proposes that Carl Menger’s Subjective Theory of Value (STV), and its subsequent elaboration by Ludwig von Mises as Praxeology, provides a useful alternative to more common methods in the study of action and social phenomena, and more specifically, to leadership in complex social systems. Rather than being based on rationality assumptions and algorithmic predictability, the STV emphasizes transient subjectivity shaped by a complex world of lacking information, mistakes, disequilibrium, uncertainty and attempted error correction that defy mathematization and exact prediction. As such, it is a framework to make sense of human action systems in terms of subjective understanding, learning, and uncertainty, rather than quantitative predictability. Accordingly, the aim of this work is to explain the STV as a general theory of action and to demonstrate its capability in developing adequate qualitative theory and to elaborate on some of the major topics that its implications raise with regard to leadership. The power of the method can be seen in that its procedure naturally branches out to facilitate an understanding of a broad selection of processes and may provide the basis for a universal theory of leadership.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Petroleum Training Center, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, Safat, Kuwait

    Terje Andreas Tonsberg

  • Monarch Business School Switzerland, Zug, Switzerland

    Jeffrey Shawn Henderson

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