Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects
We develop a perspective on steering in governance which understands steering as intended path creation. Inspired by evolutionary governance theory, critical management studies and social systems theory, we argue that steering is shaped and limited by co-evolutions, disallowing for any formulaic app...
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| author | Kristof Van Assche Martijn Duineveld Monica Gruezmacher Raoul Beunen |
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| description | We develop a perspective on steering in governance which understands steering as intended path creation. Inspired by evolutionary governance theory, critical management studies and social systems theory, we argue that steering is shaped and limited by co-evolutions, disallowing for any formulaic approach. In order to illuminate the space for steering in governance, we analyze the interplay between different dependencies. Those dependencies are not just obstacles to path creation, they can also be pointers and assets. The steering discussion is further complicated by always unique sets of couplings between a governance system and its environment. After introducing the ideas of reality effects and governance strategy, we further develop our concept of steering and present it as the management of dependencies (in governance) and reality effects (outside governance) towards path creation. This management is ideally strategic in nature and requires leadership in a new role. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f1417e6ac6c7412788f6e7bd78a74ebe2022-12-22T01:34:16ZengCogitatioPolitics and Governance2183-24632021-06-019236938010.17645/pag.v9i2.40272035Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality EffectsKristof Van Assche0Martijn Duineveld1Monica Gruezmacher2Raoul Beunen3Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, CanadaDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, The NetherlandsDepartment of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, CanadaFaculty of Science, Open University, The NetherlandsWe develop a perspective on steering in governance which understands steering as intended path creation. Inspired by evolutionary governance theory, critical management studies and social systems theory, we argue that steering is shaped and limited by co-evolutions, disallowing for any formulaic approach. In order to illuminate the space for steering in governance, we analyze the interplay between different dependencies. Those dependencies are not just obstacles to path creation, they can also be pointers and assets. The steering discussion is further complicated by always unique sets of couplings between a governance system and its environment. After introducing the ideas of reality effects and governance strategy, we further develop our concept of steering and present it as the management of dependencies (in governance) and reality effects (outside governance) towards path creation. This management is ideally strategic in nature and requires leadership in a new role.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4027dependenciesgovernanceleadershippath creationreality effectsteering |
| spellingShingle | Kristof Van Assche Martijn Duineveld Monica Gruezmacher Raoul Beunen Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects Politics and Governance dependencies governance leadership path creation reality effect steering |
| title | Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects |
| title_full | Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects |
| title_fullStr | Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects |
| title_short | Steering as Path Creation: Leadership and the Art of Managing Dependencies and Reality Effects |
| title_sort | steering as path creation leadership and the art of managing dependencies and reality effects |
| topic | dependencies governance leadership path creation reality effect steering |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/4027 |
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