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On Contemporary Leadership and Branded Organizations

Bloemhard, Mark
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1233-5767
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1469142550

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2016, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
This qualitative study examined a leader’s enigmatic decision-making process guiding innovative and complex organizations—organizations that are not able to rely on market research or the precedence of industry emulators for making strategic decisions. Leaders of highly creative organizations regularly make catalytic decisions that have fateful outcomes; their ability to recognize and appropriately adjudicate complex and unpredictable market forces determine the consequences. Such influential choices often require a deep level of intuition with very little research and time to decide. The purpose of this dissertation has been to develop a framework that presents Brand Leadership as a distinct and viable leadership paradigm. A claim that leadership may be best described as a way of being with comprehensive system-thinking capable of fully understanding the context in which he or she leads; the complexity of the organization and the trends of the marketplace. A Representative Case Research study, which included three brand leaders and nine ancillary interviews, was conducted and four unique contributions have been offered: First, while certainly related to marketing, brand is the higher order and requires strategic leadership. Second, the evolving role of the brand leader fulfills certain needs, including that brand leaders see the organization in the eyes of the customer; and that Brand Leadership represents an internal momentum in which customers are at the center of the organization. Third, Brand Leadership ,in fact, should be considered a unique leadership paradigm as it sees the leader’s intuition as a quintessential proponent to understanding context of the organization and leading within the context of a larger marketplace. And fourth, Brand Leadership is an untapped educational frontier. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, http://aura.antioch.edu/ and OhioLINK ETD Center, http://etd.ohiolink.edu
Mitch Kusy, PhD (Committee Chair)
Laura Morgan-Roberts, PhD (Committee Member)
Roger Blackwell, PhD (Committee Member)
Thomas Kaplan, PhD (Other)
184 p.
Marketing
Brand Leadership; Branding; Innovation; Retail; Creative Leadership; Intuition; Leadership

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  • Bloemhard, M. (2016). On Contemporary Leadership and Branded Organizations [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1469142550

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bloemhard, Mark . On Contemporary Leadership and Branded Organizations. 2016. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1469142550.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bloemhard, Mark . "On Contemporary Leadership and Branded Organizations." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1469142550

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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