European Public Leadership in Crisis?

European business, government, and other scholars offer eight articles on public leadership in Europe, focusing on the ways urban leaders and agencies defined the austerity crisis and gave themselves permission to act, as well as local vitality and discretion in decision making, learning from the outside, and reflection. They discuss re-imagining a different model of leadership for change; city leadership and urban policy in terms of competition and rivalry; city leadership and change; the relationships between member states and the European Union and how this affects leadership; the behavior of city managers in places with political, economic, and social turbulence; the application of English management to France; how faith and profit motives shape models of leadership and decision making; and how the concept of charismatic leadership can be used to ensure organizational change. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)