Douglas Griffin: the Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics.(Book Review)

2002, London and New York: Routledge

Theories of materiality, that is, attempts to understand the co-creation of subject and object, or, for that matter, organism and environment, constitute crucial points of departure, whether in anthropology (e.g. Miller 1987), sociology (e.g. Latour 1993), biology (e.g. Lewontin 2000), or philosophy (e.g. Butler 1999/1987; Hegel 1931/1807; Oliver 1998; Zizek 1993). As part of the Complexity and Emergence in Organizations series (see also Frenken 2002), Griffin's book carries forward the project of gleaning insights from natural scie