This paper develops a view of leadership as a social construct, as something that is created
through dialogue among groups of people in a particular context. Different contexts allow us …

'It was my first murder'–was how my colleague Maurice Punch began his ethnography of
police work. Since I had no dramatic introduction I borrowed his. My first leadership …

Thisbookprovides a comprehensive overview of basic theoretical approaches of today's
leadership research. These approaches conceive leadership as an interactive and complex …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in distributed approaches to leadership
which place the emphasis on team processes rather than harping back to heroic notions of …

Mainstream leadership studies tend to privilege and separate leaders from followers. This
article highlights the value of rethinking leadership as a set of dialectical relationships …

Previous books of the Leadership Horizon Series showed unequivocally how both leaders
and followers play an equally important part in the co-production of leadership outcomes …

Identity has been a central concern of social theorising for several decades, making
appearances in the work of sociologists (Berger and Luckmann, 1966; Giddens, 1991) …

As organizations in the twenty-first century become more diverse, decentralised, and
teambased, our understanding of the nature of effective leadership is changing, placing …

After two decades of expanding leadership scholarship and mounting critique regarding
dominant leadership theory, there is a need for a radical revitalisation of leadership thinking …

research and analysis. In relation to ontology, dialectics refers to a view of reality as the
dynamic interplay of opposing forces. Dialectically evolving interactions and their …