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Activism as a Leadership Style: An Independent Cultural Organization in a Troubled Context

Activism as a Leadership Style: An Independent Cultural Organization in a Troubled Context

2017
Milena Dragicevic Sesic
Abstract
Research focuses on the value of activism as regards an independent cultural organization in Serbia, which demanded specific leadership capacities and skills during the turbulent historical period, marked by the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. We have selected the Centre for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD stands for Centar za kulturnu dekontaminaciju, and this abbreviation is commonly used when writing about the Centre) and its leader Borka Pavicevic, a paradigmatic figure and symbol of dissidence and activist movements of those period, for a case study. The main approach would relate to the organizational development studies and leadership theories trying to explore mutual interdependence, located in the context of cultural transition and social movements that presented key agents of change in post-communist time. A method would include an adaptable quality management approach (Dragicevic Sesic, Dragojevic 2005) and an Adizes leadership theory, while empirical part would be...

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