ADAPTIVE NEUROLEADERSHIP AND NEUROVISCERAL REGULATION: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW ON CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN THE BANI SETTING
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Neuroleadership, Conflict Management, Neurovisceral Regulation, BANI World, Integrative ReviewAbstract
This study aims to synthesize and critically analyze, through an exploratory and qualitative bibliographic research, how contemporary scientific and corporate literature articulates neurovisceral regulation and allostatic load in leadership and conflict mediation strategies within the BANI scenario. The study adopts an Integrative Literature Review design, using indexed databases to retrieve seminal works and articles published between 1995 and the present. The hermeneutic analysis is based on the principles of the Polyvagal Theory and the brain's metabolic economy (body budget), operating on the assumption that physiological stability and vagal tone act as the biological foundations for productive social engagement. It is concluded that the state of the art shows a methodological transition in organizations: the progressive abandonment of approaches strictly based on "cold cognition" inventories in favor of models that recognize instinctive survival heuristics ("hot cognition"). Finally, the study highlights the importance of avoiding biological reductionism when interpreting executive behavior in highly complex environments.
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