Submitting Campus
Worldwide
Department
College of Business
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
2016
Abstract/Description
Understanding leadership characteristics, frameworks, components, and contexts that are beneficial to the guidance of organizational policy is useful for understanding the way in which leaders should act during a crisis. Recessions are common throughout economies; yet, many see recessions as crises. Due to the chaotic nature of economic recessions, leaders must work in conditions of uncertainty, complexity, and volatility. Therefore, using a qualitative phenomenological approach, an examination was conducted on leaders’ lived experiences of the Great Recession of 2008 to further understand the concept of crisis leadership. A discussion is included on the way in which leaders internalize and analyze the crisis and the characteristics and behaviors needed to sustain through the crisis. This research was conducted in 2013.
Publication Title
International Journal of Leadership and Change
Publisher
Western Kentucky University
Scholarly Commons Citation
Walker, S. M., Earnhardt, M. P., Newcomer, J. M., Marion, J. W., & Tomlinson, J. C. (2016). Crisis Leadership During the Great Recession of 2008. International Journal of Leadership and Change, 4(1). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1348
