TY - JOUR
T1 - Collective dimensions of leadership
T2 - Connecting theory and method
AU - Ospina, Sonia M.
AU - Foldy, Erica Gabrielle
AU - Fairhurst, Gail T.
AU - Jackson, Brad
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to NYU/Wagner doctoral candidate Seulki Lee, who consistently and with great discipline supported the editorial process, coordinated the work of four busy co-editors, and kept them marching at a steady pace. They are also grateful for the support provided by the Leadership Initiative at New York University for the 2016, 2017, and 2018 Co-Lead Net workshops, and to all participants of these workshops, where the idea of doing this Special Issue was seeded. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - In this introductory article we explain the impetus for creating the Special Issue, along with its goals and the process by which we created it. We present a map of the terrain of collective leadership (CL) that builds on earlier frameworks, recognizing that the terrain is expanding and has become increasingly difficult to traverse. The map is comprised of two axes or dimensions. The first axis, the ‘locus of leadership,’ captures how scholars conceptualize where to look for manifestations of leadership. That is, does the leadership reside in the group or does it reside in the system? The second axis is the view of ‘collectivity’ that plots how scholars conceptualize the collective. Do they see it as an empirical type of leadership or a theoretical lens through which to study leadership? We then plot distinctive CL research into four cells, providing definitions and references to empirical work emblematic for each cell. In introducing and summarizing each of the five articles we have selected for this Special Issue, we show where each of these is located on the CL research map, and distil how each provides a clear connection between theory and method in a way that advances our understanding of CL.
AB - In this introductory article we explain the impetus for creating the Special Issue, along with its goals and the process by which we created it. We present a map of the terrain of collective leadership (CL) that builds on earlier frameworks, recognizing that the terrain is expanding and has become increasingly difficult to traverse. The map is comprised of two axes or dimensions. The first axis, the ‘locus of leadership,’ captures how scholars conceptualize where to look for manifestations of leadership. That is, does the leadership reside in the group or does it reside in the system? The second axis is the view of ‘collectivity’ that plots how scholars conceptualize the collective. Do they see it as an empirical type of leadership or a theoretical lens through which to study leadership? We then plot distinctive CL research into four cells, providing definitions and references to empirical work emblematic for each cell. In introducing and summarizing each of the five articles we have selected for this Special Issue, we show where each of these is located on the CL research map, and distil how each provides a clear connection between theory and method in a way that advances our understanding of CL.
KW - Collective leadership
KW - distributed leadership
KW - leadership research methods
KW - plural leadership
KW - relational leadership
KW - shared leadership
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U2 - 10.1177/0018726719899714
DO - 10.1177/0018726719899714
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081259912
SN - 0018-7267
VL - 73
SP - 441
EP - 463
JO - Human Relations
JF - Human Relations
IS - 4
ER -