The Use of Adaptive Leadership and Adaptive Learning Strategies in Organizations Facing Market Extinction

This qualitative study examines three cases of business organizations that successfully adapted to radically changed environments. The study acknowledges the situational nature of organizational adaptation by examining environmental influences and factors of organizational context, including leadership and learning, as both impetuses for adaptation and as resources for doing the necessary adaptive work. In particular, the use of leadership and learning strategies, along with other factors, used in the adaptive process are explored through interviews and artifacts collected from employees who were part of each organization during its adaptive period. Learning as an underlying process for adaptation is discussed in depth.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Egmon, Jean M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ward, James G.

• Psychology, Industrial

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9944843

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80318