Followership research has increased recently, but little attention has been paid to the
complexities and challenges of creating a followership identity. Researchers typically portray …

In this conceptual paper, we advance Transformative Leadership Conversation as a form of
dialogue that relies on shared meaning-making to activate the motivational energy within …

The scholarly literature on leadership has long been characterized by leader-centrism, in the
sense of a focus on individual leaders, their characteristics and actions. This tendency has …

Peer interaction is a standard aspect of most leadership development programmes and is
seen to be conducive to learning. Realising deeper and critical reflexivity in peer interaction …

A investigação e o conhecimento científico sobre a liderança e a sua importância no
sucesso das organizações, continua a ser um tema amplamente explorado pela ciência. No …

Drawing on literature conceptualising leadership as a discursive accomplishment, this paper
defines leadership as leadership work: a process unfolding through talk and depending on a …

The paper explores how formal leaders make sense of and deal with autonomy of
knowledge-workers. Based on interviews, I suggest that leaders make sense of knowledge …

This paper critiques the empirically supported normative argument that distributed
leadership allows for shared accountability and responsibility. Through the means of …

We consider the construction of leadership influence involving manipulation and from
narrative standpoint. We use the career of Adolf Hitler as an empirical example-as a case …

This study aims to investigate discourses of the charisma of Barack Obama in articles in a
leading Finnish newspaper during the first 6 months of his presidency. The results show that …