Resistance leadership

The overlooked potential in critical organization and leadership studies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9891406
AutoresHeather M Zoller (0000-0002-2967-7061, Communication at the University of Cincinnati, autor de correspondencia), Gail T Fairhurst (0000-0001-9225-8284, Communication at the University of Cincinnati, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen60
Número9
Páginas1331-1360
Fecha de publicación2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHuman Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0018726707082850
OpenAlexW2160305846
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas63
Referencias citadas70

This article examines the role of leadership in mobilizing collective resistance in the workplace. Given the scarcity of dialogue between critical scholars and leadership studies, relatively little consideration is given to the role of leadership in resisting and potentially transforming structures of domination. The article describes some of the reasons why these areas of research have produced so little mutual work. We then make the argument that theories of leadership can be useful to the study of resistance by providing a grounded approach to theorizing agency, highlighting the role of mobilization and influence in change, and emphasizing participant attributions. In doing so, leadership studies gain important insights about the influence of deep structure power issues on perceptions of leaders, as well as material and symbolic limits on mobilization. The article adopts a dialectical perspective as a way of understanding issues of resistance leadership, and then discusses how existing literatures, read with this dialectical approach, can be brought to bear on significant questions concerning the practices of resistance leadership

Agency (philosophy · Collective leadership · Dialectic · Epistemology · Leadership · Leadership studies · Leadership style · Political science · Power (physics · Public relations · Resistance (ecology · Servant leadership · Shared leadership · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Transformational leadership · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice