Publication
Title
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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Abstract
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.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Journal of change management. - Place of publication unknown
Publication
Place of publication unknown : 2023
ISSN
1469-7017
DOI
10.1080/14697017.2023.2279690
Volume/pages
23 :4 (2023) , p. 374-403
ISI
001100049200001
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Full text (open access)
The author-created version that incorporates referee comments and is the accepted for publication version Available from 09.11.2024
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UAntwerpen
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
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Creation 16.11.2023
Last edited 04.03.2024
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