Outsider Leadership Insights and Interviews from Business Leaders /

• Main Authors: O'Riordan, Chris (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kelliher, Felicity (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Flood, Patrick C. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Higgs, Malcolm (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Leadership.; Manpower policy.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Human Resource Development.

Encompassing interviews with managing directors and CEOs, this book explores the role of business outsiders as leaders. Viewing the term 'outsider' in a broad sense, the book considers leader background, perspective, gender, training and family membership and examines the implications, cha...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Outsider Concept and Outsider Leader: A Literature Review
• From Politics to Business: How Wide is the Leadership Gap?
• Leading Within a Male Dominated Sector: The Female Outsider Leader Landscape
• Serial Outsider Leadership: Coming in From the Cold?
• Outside In and Out and In as a Serial Entrepreneur
• Outsider Leader in an Outside Market: The Challenges of Market Entry
• Outsider After the Fact: Leading in a Founder-Present Business
• Outsider by Birth: Leading in a Family Firm
• Conclusion.