Abstract
Davis argues ownership is significant in determining organizational purpose and authentic professionalism depends on the existence of a human-centered purpose. He critiques models for professionalization based on codes and guild-style institutions as inadequate. Davis utilizes the co-operative ownership form to develop a Weberian-style ideal type model of “Co-operative Leader” to illustrate his argument. Davis critiques both the Weberian approach to legitimation and Foucault’s focus on individual permanent resistance to power arguing instead that a professional leadership in organizations and associations is possible when the latter’s focus is upon emancipation from constraints to realizing human potential. He concludes the ideal type provides a practical guide to leadership development and performance evaluation when applied to not for profit, social economy and public-owned organizations.
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Davis, P. (2018). Leadership as a Profession: A Special Case Dependent on Organizational Ownership, Governance, Mission and Vision. In: Örtenblad, A. (eds) Professionalizing Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71785-2_6
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