The Strength of Difference: Itineraries of Atypical Bosses - Couverture rigide

Alter, Norbert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1787145824 ISBN 13 : 9781787145825

Editeur : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018

Synopsis

Bosses and managers from atypical backgrounds have succeeded in avoiding socially pre-determined outcomes by turning their differences into resources. This did not, however, mean that they became "normal". They are leaders, but they remain excluded from convened social positions.This distance leads them to listen, to look upon, and to analyse their environments, their pasts and their relations with others much more than "normal" people do. Furthermore, this distance facilitates entrepreneurial risk-taking and the creation of networks, complicity and solidarity. It requires the mobilization of extraordinary social intelligence. This book describes the processes through which stigma can be mastered, if not forgotten. It also explains that the position of outsiders, in the broadest meaning of the term, translates the social experiences of all those who belong to several worlds, and who find themselves condemned simultaneously to engagement and detachment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Norbert Alter is a Professor of Sociology at Paris Dauphine University, France. He specialises in the sociology of organisations and favours an empirically grounded understanding of the world of business and the social bonds that develop there.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787145824
• ISBN 13: 9781787145825
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne