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Vertical and Shared Leadership in Large Safety-Oriented Organizations. An Empirical Analysis

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Part of the book series: Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics ((EBES,volume 7))

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This article explores the relationship between leadership and safety-oriented culture, by analyzing the predictive role of vertical and shared leadership styles (and behaviors). Drawing on a sample of 68 managers from a safety-oriented organization, we develop a set of hypothesis in order to understand the different relationships between leadership styles (and behaviors) under prevention context as well as crisis situation. To test hypothesis we ran separate hierarchical regression analysis. Results highlight that vertical leadership variables account for a significant amount of variance in prevention context beyond the shared leadership variables, as well as the shared leadership variables account for a significant amount of variance over the vertical leadership styles under emergencies context. With respect to the existing literature, the paper contributes to the leadership literature and safety-oriented culture by showing how vertical and shared leadership (transformational and transactional) are related to prevention and containment processes and should be both considered in order to manage different contingencies that happen as ordinary and extraordinary events in the organization.

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  1. Department of Political Science, Communication and International Relations, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy

    Daniele Binci

  2. Department of Management and Law, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Scafarto, Corrado Cerruti & Andrea Appolloni

  3. Reha Midilli Foca Faculty of Tourism, Department of Tourism Management, Dokuz Eylul University, İzmir, Turkey

    Emir Ozeren

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  1. Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  2. MUFG Union Bank, San Francisco, California, USA

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  3. Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Binci, D., Scafarto, F., Cerruti, C., Appolloni, A., Ozeren, E. (2017). Vertical and Shared Leadership in Large Safety-Oriented Organizations. An Empirical Analysis. In: Bilgin, M., Danis, H., Demir, E., Can, U. (eds) Regional Studies on Economic Growth, Financial Economics and Management. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54112-9_28

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