Pot, alias brother number one: Leaders as instruments of history

e Cunha, MP; Rego, A; Clegg, S

Pot, alias brother number one: Leaders as instruments of history

e Cunha, MP Rego, A Clegg, S

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Citation:: Management and Organizational History, 2011, 6 (3), pp. 268 - 286
Issue Date:: 2011-08-01

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dc.contributor.author	e Cunha, MP	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Rego, A	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Clegg, S https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6083-4283	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-08-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Management and Organizational History, 2011, 6 (3), pp. 268 - 286	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1744-9359	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18924
dc.description.abstract	Pol Pot is one twentieth century leader with a specific place in history as the orchestrator of one of that century's many significant genocides. As the commander of the deadly Khmer Rouge, he orchestrated the genocide perpetrated in Cambodia between 1974 and 1979, in which 1.7 million people, or 21% of the country's population, died (UN figure). Explanations of how the genocide occurred often stress it as an unanticipated consequence of implementing a utopian vision. That vision was one of a classless society of peasants freed from the shackles of both feudalism and capitalism, in which all dominant feudal and bourgeois institutions had been eliminated in order to 'free' the people. The unfolding of utopian projects in which leaders assume the role of instruments of history reveals dimensions of the leadership process that tend to go unnoticed and under-researched in the management and organisational literature. © The Author(s), 2011.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Management and Organizational History	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1177/1744935911406174	en_US
dc.title	Pot, alias brother number one: Leaders as instruments of history	en_US
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Abstract:

Pol Pot is one twentieth century leader with a specific place in history as the orchestrator of one of that century's many significant genocides. As the commander of the deadly Khmer Rouge, he orchestrated the genocide perpetrated in Cambodia between 1974 and 1979, in which 1.7 million people, or 21% of the country's population, died (UN figure). Explanations of how the genocide occurred often stress it as an unanticipated consequence of implementing a utopian vision. That vision was one of a classless society of peasants freed from the shackles of both feudalism and capitalism, in which all dominant feudal and bourgeois institutions had been eliminated in order to 'free' the people. The unfolding of utopian projects in which leaders assume the role of instruments of history reveals dimensions of the leadership process that tend to go unnoticed and under-researched in the management and organisational literature. © The Author(s), 2011.

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