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Title
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How does leadership manage network-level tensions in a turbulent environment? A case study on the Antwerp Fire Service Network Leadership during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Author
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Abstract
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| A crucial topic is how network leadership recognizes and responds to network-level tensions. However, when we focus on how leadership manages these tensions, we favor a one-sided view by focusing predominantly on how leadership manages tensions within the network, implicitly adopting a closed system assumption. In this article, we propose that why a specific network-level behavior is enacted can (partially) be explained by how network leadership is embedded within an organizational field and how environmental and population dynamics shape network tensions. The Social Network Analysis showed that the Antwerp Fire Service crisis response network developed from a core–periphery network to a smaller, denser network. Based on the thematic analysis, we provide insights into network leadership practices to recognize and respond to network tensions that arose during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic due to internal network characteristics and the organizational field's environmental and population dynamics. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of change management. - Place of publication unknown
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Publication
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Place of publication unknown
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2023
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ISSN
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1469-7017
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DOI
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10.1080/14697017.2023.2279690
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Volume/pages
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23
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(2023)
, p. 374-403
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ISI
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001100049200001
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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