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Exploring distributed leadership : solving disagreements and negotiating consensus in a 'leaderless' team
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Choi, Seongsook and Schnurr, Stephanie (2014) Exploring distributed leadership : solving disagreements and negotiating consensus in a 'leaderless' team. Discourse Studies, Volume 16 (Number 1). pp. 3-24. doi:10.1177/1461445613508891 ISSN 1461-4456.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445613508891
Abstract
This article explores how leadership is done in a 'leaderless' team. Drawing on a corpus of more than 120 hours of audio-recorded meetings of different interdisciplinary research groups and using a discourse analytic framework and tools, we examine how leadership is enacted in a team that does not have an assigned leader or chair. Our specific focus is the discursive processes through which team members conjointly solve disagreements and negotiate consensus – which are two activities associated with leadership. More specifically, we analyse how meaning is collaboratively constructed and how team members arrive at a solution in those instances where there is some kind of disagreement, or even conflict, among team members. This discourse analytic study thus contributes to leadership research in two ways: i) by exploring some of the discursive processes through which leadership is actually performed in a 'leaderless team'; and ii) by looking at a largely under-researched leadership constellation, namely distributed leadership. We thereby illustrate some of the benefits that discourse analytical approaches offer to an understanding of the specific processes that are involved in the complexities of leadership performance.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Leadership, Group decision making | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 1461-4456 | ||||||
Official Date: | February 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 16 | ||||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 3-24 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1461445613508891 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 December 2015 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 December 2015 |
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