An ontology of power and leadership
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nuno Ornelas Martins (0000-0001-7966-6435, Catolica Porto Business School and CEGE Universidade Católica Portuguesa Rua Diogo Botelho, 1327 4169‐005 Porto Portugal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-97 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jtsb.12155 |
| OpenAlex | W2768371360 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 20 |
In this article I draw upon the social ontologies developed by John Searle, Roy Bhaskar, Margaret Archer and Tony Lawson in order to distinguish between power and leadership. To do so, I distinguish the different organizing principles behind natural phenomena, collective phenomena and institutional phenomena, and argue that an understanding of those different organizing principles is essential to a clearer conceptualization of power and leadership. Natural power and cultural power, as I argue, depend upon the organizing principles of natural phenomena, and differ depending on whether those organizing principles have been transformed by humans, in which case it becomes cultural power, or not, in which case it simply is natural power. Leadership emerges with the ability of making other humans share mental states through collective intentionality. Institutional power, in contrast, is connected to the creation of a deontology of rights and obligations that provide what Searle calls desire‐independent reasons for action
Action (physics · Conceptualization · Economics · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Ontology · Order (exchange · Power (physics · Social ontology · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Realism in Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy
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Economics and Reality
Leadership in administration
Reorienting Economics
An Evolutionary Approach to Emergence and Social Causation
Realist Social Theory
The Logic of Practice
The Possibility of Naturalism
Ontology in Organization and Management Studies
Ontology and the study of social reality
Rules, Social Ontology and Collective Identity
Technology and the Extension of Human Capabilities
A Realist Theory of Science
Cultural Rules and Material Relations
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |