TABLE 5-2: LITERATURE REVIEW ON STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP
From the literature review on strategic leadership, one can deduce that:
There is controversy concerning who exercises strategic leadership. Whereas some scholars
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fact that strategic leadership can be exercised by first-, middle, and top-OHYHOPDQDJHUV ́(Hitt
& Ireland, 2002, p.4). Others focus on the people who have overall responsibility for the
organization and includes not only the titular head of the organization but also members of
what is referred to as the top management team or dominant coalition (Cyert & March, 1963).
Effective strategic leadership revolves around the tension between short-term and long-term,
change and stability, bureaucracy and anarchy.