Editors:
- Reflects the growing interest in values as an up and coming concept in organization and leadership studies
- Offers a conceptual alternative to more rational governance and management approaches
- Contributes to learning with the provision of case studies
- Examines the trajectory of values within sociology in order to analyze its application as a key concept in institutional theory
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Values, Values Work and Complex Institutional Contexts
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Who Performs Values Work?
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How Is Values Work Performed?
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About this book
Focusing on practices of values work, the book applies and combines different theoretical lenses exemplified by the integration of institutional perspectives with micro-level perspectives and approaches.
Editors and Affiliations
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VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway
Harald Askeland, Gry Espedal, Beate Jelstad Løvaas, Stephen Sirris
About the editors
Gry Espedal is Associate Professor at VID Specialized University, and holds a Master of Management. She researches values work in institutions and processes of institutionalization in organizations pressured by changing macro-contexts. She has published articles and books within values-based leadership, authentic leadership, values work, coaching and solution-focused approach.
Beate Jelstad Løvaas is Associate Professor at VID Specialized University. She has published in national and international journals. Her current research interestsinclude relational leadership, meaningful work and motivation, and the role of values in nonprofit organizations, and in the public and private sector.
Stephen Sirris is Associate Professor and Head of the Master’s programme in Values-based leadership and Centre of Values-based Leadership and innovation at VID Specialized University, Oslo. He has published on leadership and organization in the third sector with an emphasis on religious organizations, volunteers, professionals and the role of values.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Values Work
Book Subtitle: Institutional Perspectives in Organizations and Leadership
Editors: Harald Askeland, Gry Espedal, Beate Jelstad Løvaas, Stephen Sirris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37748-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37747-2Published: 15 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37750-2Published: 18 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37748-9Published: 14 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership