Leading Change in a Complex World: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
by Kangas, Anni; Kujala, Johanna; Heikkinen, Anna

About the Author
Dr. Anni Kangas is University Lecturer in International Relations at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, and the Academic Director of the Master’s Programme in Leadership for Change. Her current research focus is on the world politics of urbanisation and the role of art and popular culture in international relations. Her research has been published in journals such as Millennium: Journal of International Studies, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Global Networks, and Journal of International Relations and Development.
Dr. Johanna Kujala is Professor of Management and Organisation at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University. She has extensive teaching and supervising experience that covers courses at all university levels as well as adult and continuing education. She has published over 50 scholarly articles in international peer-reviewed journals and volumes. She is a member of the review boards of Journal of Business Ethics and Business Ethics: A European Review. Her current research interests focus on stakeholder engagement and value creation, moral decisionmaking, and case studies on corporate responsibility and sustainability.
Dr. Anna Heikkinen is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University. Her research interests include sustainable development in and around organisations, urban nature, and discourse analysis. Her work has been published in edited volumes and international journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, Business Communication Quarterly, and International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies.

About this book
Leading Change in a Complex World : Transdisciplinary Perspectives is a transdisciplinary book offering tools for leaders, analysts and students of leadership to navigate in complex and interconnected settings. It proposes an analytical framework based on complexity, relational leadership, and dynamic change. Individual chapters examine these ideas in relation to topical societal, organisational and business challenges such as the changing global security environment, urbanisation, demographic changes, and business-government relations. The leadership roles of heads of states and societal stakeholders are analysed, and versatile leadership and management practices from conflict management to evaluation are introduced. The possibilities for change are examined through global megatrends, shifting global power blocs, changes in consumer practices, as well as those emanating from abstract concepts such as the circular economy.

Brief contents
CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Leadership for Dealing with Complex Changes
Part I Complex World
CHAPTER 2 Stakeholder Engagement in the Generation of Urban Ecosystem Services  
CHAPTER 3 Organising Complexity: Creating Boundary Objects for Sustainable Urban Development
CHAPTER 4 Security Dynamics: Multilayered Security Governance in an Age of Complexity, Uncertainty, and Resilience
CHAPTER 5 Supporting Longer Working Careers in Organisations: Challenges and Complexities
CHAPTER 6 International Taxation and the Complex Case of Digitalisation  
Part II Relational Leadership
CHAPTER 7 A Stakeholder Approach to Value Creation and Leadership
CHAPTER 8Leading Change: A Customer Value Framework
CHAPTER 9 Conflicts in Leading and Managing Change: Towards a Reflexive Practice
CHAPTER 10 Evaluation as a Tool for Leading Change
CHAPTER 11 Leadership That Drives Social Change With Performance Measures
CHAPTER 12 Presidents, Institutions, and the Quest for Coherent Leadership
CHAPTER 13 Company Directors’ Key Duties and Business Judgment Rule
Part III Dynamic Change
CHAPTER 14 Consumer-Citizens as Leaders of Change: The Case of Food Waste
CHAPTER 15 Can Abstract Ideas Generate Change? The Case of the Circular Economy
CHAPTER 16 Leadership for a Pluralistic Order? Assessing BRICS and Development Finance
CHAPTER 17 Megatrends in the Insurance and Financial Sector
Afterword
CHAPTER 18 Leadership for Change: How Did We Get There and Where Do We Go From Here?

Pages: 372 pages
Publisher: Tampere University Press (Feb 5, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-9520308452