Purpose Studies of distributed leadership (DL) are increasing, but are not systematic, often
taking a normative position emphasizing the superiority of DL to solo leadership and using …

This special issue addresses a number of the key themes that have been surfacing from the
literature on distributed leadership (DL) for some time. Together with those papers selected …

The aim of this paper is to review conceptual and empirical literature on the concept of
distributed leadership (DL) in order to identify its origins, key arguments and areas for further …

The landscape of distributed leadership has become littered with conceptual confusion.
Spillane (2006) provided the foundation for a theory of distributed leadership by defining …

Purpose‐The purpose of this paper is to measure employees' attitude toward distributed
leadership (DL) practices and investigate the challenges involved in implementing DL …

Ideas come and go. Some retain their usefulness, while some fall by the wayside. Still others
survive with their original integrity intact, while others undergo major surgery or revision. To …

This paper addresses a new perspective how leadership can be conceptualized in times of
dispersed and team working structures. The dispersed leadership theory in teams proposes …

Scholars hold different perspectives about leadership which are not limited to a formally
appointed leader. Of the abundance of terms used to describe this phenomenon, shared …

Leadership scholars have proposed a number of different constructs to describe those
situations where leadership is enacted by the members of a team, instead of concentrated …

Few concepts in the educational leadership field have garnered more popular attention over
the past half dozen years than “distributed leadership.” This popularity reflects the extent to …