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Organizational leadership in low-intensity crisis: a scoping review
Swedish Defence University, Institutionen för ledarskap och ledning, Leadership and Command & Control Division Karlstad. Department of Health and Welfare, The Inland University, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8274-6065
Department of Health and Welfare, The Inland University, Norway, (NOR).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8800-8140
Swedish Defence University, Institutionen för ledarskap och ledning, Leadership and Command & Control Division Karlstad.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5070-4979
Swedish Defence University, Institutionen för ledarskap och ledning, Leadership and Command & Control Division Karlstad.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9557-4936
2025 (English)In: Cogent Psychology, E-ISSN 2331-1908, Vol. 12, no 1, p. 1-8Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In contrast to an acute crisis that must be dealt with immediately, the handling of low-intensity crisis such as pandemics, cyber threats, climate crisis, increased resistance to antibiotics, etc. can often wait. However, it cannot wait too long because then the cost can be detrimental. The aim was to systematically review and evaluate the research on leadership and management at the organizational level in low-intensity crisis. A scoping review was performed which was limited to peer-review based articles, focusing on leadership and management at the organizational level. The analysis consisted of an explorative, inductive thematic analysis. Codes were identified in the texts and formed the basis of categories, which, in turn, were grouped into themes. The following four themes emerged in the analysis of the obtained literature: (1) general framing conditions; (2) predominantly management-related aspects; (3) predominantly leadership-related aspects; and (4) predominantly subordinate-related aspects. Most aspects found can be related to general leadership and management research and studies on short-term, acute crisis. A key finding was that few peer-reviewed articles were found, confirming that leadership and management in low-intensity crisis is an under-researched area. Given the challenges of ongoing and expected low-intensity crisis, more research focusing specifically on this kind of leadership and management is needed.

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2025. Vol. 12, no 1, p. 1-8
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Low-intensity crisis, long-term crisis, creeping crisis, organizational level, leadership, management, scoping review
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Leadership and Command & Control
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URN: urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-13684DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2025.2496024OAI: oai:DiVA.org:fhs-13684DiVA, id: diva2:1961086
Available from: 2025-05-26 Created: 2025-05-26 Last updated: 2025-09-29Bibliographically approved

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