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It is time to re-think and to re-do! Our contemporary world of organizations and management; respectively, leadership as well as its socio-cultural embedment calls for a radical re-thinking (Bolden et al. 2016; Birkinshaw 2012; Ladkin 2012; Mowles 2011). But what does it mean to re-think something in general, and to re-think management in particular? This introduction tries to outline some basic consideration and inspiration about the status and implication of rethinking in relation to management, thereby to organizations and its embedding contexts. Resonating with a pluralistic cultural orientation (cultural turns in sensu see Bachmann-Medick in this book), we then critically reflect problems of a one-sided ‘culturalism’. Furthermore, we then move from a conceptual rethinking to a more performative understanding of re-doing.
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Küpers, W., Sonnenburg, S., Zierold, M. (2017). ReThinking Management. In: Küpers, W., Sonnenburg, S., Zierold, M. (eds) ReThinking Management. Management – Culture – Interpretation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16983-1_1
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