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Leadership in Iceland: A Historical Context

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Demystifying Leadership in Iceland

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The purpose of this chapter is to frame the circumstances that affected the development of leadership in Iceland. Leadership is a result of different societal and economic processes, whereas in the case of Iceland, it is a relatively young phenomenon and it is strongly associated with the economic development of the country. Throughout the nineteenth century and in the 1900s, the quality of socioeconomic conditions in Iceland was among the lowest in Europe. This chapter recollects the development of organizational leadership traditions in Iceland.

A person should not agree today to what they’ll regret tomorrow.

Bandamanna Saga, c.10

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  1. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Inga Minelgaite, Svala Guðmundsdóttir & Árelía E. Guðmundsdóttir

  2. Institute of Quality Management and Business Administration (IQB-FHS), FHS St. Gallen, University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Olga Stangej

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Minelgaite, I., Guðmundsdóttir, S., Guðmundsdóttir, Á.E., Stangej, O. (2018). Leadership in Iceland: A Historical Context. In: Demystifying Leadership in Iceland. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96044-9_3

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