Sofi Ospina
Biographic Data
| ID | 213792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofi Ospina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ospina |
| SIGNATURE | OSPINA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2166-6544 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 475 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The dialectics of leadership identity construction: Case studies from Indigenous women leaders
Challenging oversimplified models, the leader identity literature calls for new perspectives of leadership identity construction (LIC). Using a collective leadership lens and narrative methods, this collaborative study explores how Indigenous women’s leadership identities develop within a contest for power and voice. Observations, interviews, and micro-ethnographies helped identify how history, community dynamics and cultural contradictions influ…
A Framework for Assessing Accountability in Collaborative Governance: A Process-Based Approach
Despite the complexities involved around the accountability mechanisms of collaborative governance, little is known about how to assess accountability at the network level and disentangle possible accountability deficits. This study first explicates the nature of collaborative governance accountability in contrast to accountability in traditional public administration and market-based governance. The analysis shows how collaborative governance ac…
Advancing constructionist leadership research through paradigm interplay: An application in the leadership–trust domain
While relational leadership constructionist scholarship has gained a powerful voice in the leadership conversation, mainstream leadership studies continue to ignore its contributions. Paradigm interplay represents an approach to knowledge construction that may help constructionists contribute to the cumulative relational leadership conversation, while reasserting their interpretive commitments. The article first explains why paradigm interplay is…
Enhancing Methodological Reporting in Public Administration: The Functional Equivalents Framework
Public administration scholarship reflects a multidisciplinary field in which many theoretical perspectives coexist. However, one of the dark sides of such theoretical pluralism is methodological fragmentation. It may be hard to assess the research quality and to engage with the findings from studies employing different methodologies, thus limiting meaningful conversations. Moreover, the constant race across social sciences to make methodologies …
Collective dimensions of leadership: Connecting theory and method
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 co…
Studying collective leadership: The road ahead
In the concluding article, we move from providing a map of the collective leadership (CL) research field that has been conducted to date to providing a travel guide that we hope can inspire both experienced and novice travelers to push out the frontiers of exploration of CL. A Rapid Appraisal analysis of the extant CL research revealed that most of the work to date has focused on shared and distributed leadership; taken an empirical rather than a…
Striving for State of the Art with Paradigm Interplay and Meta-Synthesis: Purpose-oriented Network Research Challenges and Good Research Practices as a Way Forward
With the growing amount and increasing heterogeneity of research on purpose-oriented networks (PONs) in the public sector, it is imperative to find a way to synthesize this research. Drawing on the varied research perspectives on PONs, we advance the idea of paradigm interplay and meta-synthesis as aspirations for the field and argue this is especially key if we want the study of PONs to inform practice. However, we recognize several challenges i…
Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership: Communities and Social Change from Below
Assessing Qualitative Studies in Public Administration Research
Systematic reviews of research methods in the public administration field have assessed the progress of research practice and offered relevant recommendations to further develop research quality. But most recent reviews examine quantitative studies, and the few assessments of qualitative scholarship tend to focus on specific dimensions. This article calls attention to the overall practice of qualitative research in the field of public administrat…
Picturing peace: Murals and memory in Colombia
The painting of murals and graffiti is a widespread and well-established practice in Colombia. Most of the artwork is not directly political. However, a significant number of murals speak directly to the political problems of the society; to the protracted violent political conflict and the emerging peace process in Colombia. That articulation varies through different regions in Colombia, depending on the balance of forces between guerrillas, for…
Collective Leadership and Context in Public Administration: Bridging Public Leadership Research and Leadership Studies
This article challenges the view that public leadership research should maintain a separate perspective in the study of public leadership. It discusses the benefits of further embedding the public leadership research domain within leadership studies, constructing a cross‐fertilization that contributes to advance both. The article maps key concerns in relational leadership theories, contrasting them with current work in the public leadership resea…
Leadership Styles
Leadership is generally understood as an unequal influence process between one or more individuals and a larger group, which is intended to achieve a collective goal. Research on race, ethnicity, and leadership has a long history and occurs in numerous disciplines, for instance psychology, political science, management, and education. Overall, this work falls into three large groupings, which look at how race and ethnicity influence perceptions o…
Public Administration Research and the Field's Identity
The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Interorganizational Goal-Directed Networks--Managing the Unity-Diversity Tension
Network management research documents how network members engage in activities to advance their own goals. However, this literature offers little insight into the nature of work that aims to advance the goals of the network as a "whole." By examining the behavioral dimension of network governance, this article identifies a specific tension that network leaders address to effectively govern networks: although unity and diversity are essential to n…
Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Qualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that their leaders developed practices as a response to two paradoxical requirements of network collaboration: managing unity and diversity when doing inward work and confrontation and dialogue when d…
Weaving Color Lines: Race, Ethnicity, and the Work of Leadership in Social Change Organizations
For social change organizations working to address intractable social problems throughou the US tackling race may not only be unavoidable, it may also represent away to fully engage stakeholders in social change work. We argue that illuminating the relationship between race and leaders hip can advance our understanding of how social change leadership happens in practice. We build upon scholarship that emphasizes the ways in which seemingly essent…
Celebrating the legacy of Orlando Fals Borda
It's About Time: Catching Method Up to Meaning-The Usefulness of Narrative Inquiry in Public Administration Research
As a form of interpretive research, narrative inquiry contributes to the pursuit of high-quality public administration scholarship, along with other forms of explanatory research that have dominated the field. In this article we discuss the unique features of narrative inquiry, review how this research orientation has been used in public administration, and use our experience with a national, multimodal, multiyear research project on social-chang…
Narrative Inquiry and the Search for Connectedness: Practitioners and Academics Developing Public Administration Scholarship
Maintaining a vibrant field of public administration requires ongoing efforts to link the worlds of academic researchers and practitioners. We suggest that research itself, traditionally pursued by academics, is a promising mechanism for making this connection. In particular, researchers and practitioners in public administration can do research together in a way that enhances mutual learning, draws on the strengths of each to create useful knowl…
Integrating Rigor and Relevance in Public Administration Scholarship: The Contribution of Narrative Inquiry
A traditional view of scholarly quality defines rigor as the application of method and assumes an implicit connection with relevance. But as an applied field, public administration requires explicit attention to both rigor and relevance. Interpretive scholars' notions of rigor demand an explicit inclusion of relevance as an integral aspect of quality. As one form of interpretive research, narrative inquiry illuminates how this can be done. We use…
From Consent to Mutual Inquiry: Balancing Democracy and Authority in Action Research
The Leadership for a Changing World (LCW) program is a joint endeavor between the Ford Foundation, the Advocacy Institute, and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. This paper focuses on the experiences of the Research and Documentation component of LCW – lead by a research team from the Wagner School – during the initial implementation phases of the research. This component formed an inquiry group consisting of both academic re…
Understanding Cooperative Behavior in Labor Management Cooperation: A Theory‐Building Exercise
This article proposes a theory of how mandated institutional cooperation transforms into individual cooperative behavior. Using qualitative strategies, we draw insights about cooperation in three public‐sector efforts of labor‐management cooperation (LMC). We report an association between critical shifts in the roles of stakeholders and the change from adversarial to cooperative labor relations. While managers became team players along with their…
Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality
Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality
It's About Time: Catching Method Up to Meaning-The Usefulness of Narrative Inquiry in Public Administration Research
As a form of interpretive research, narrative inquiry contributes to the pursuit of high-quality public administration scholarship, along with other forms of explanatory research that have dominated the field. In this article we discuss the unique features of narrative inquiry, review how this research orientation has been used in public administration, and use our experience with a national, multimodal, multiyear research project on social-chang…
The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Interorganizational Goal-Directed Networks--Managing the Unity-Diversity Tension
Network management research documents how network members engage in activities to advance their own goals. However, this literature offers little insight into the nature of work that aims to advance the goals of the network as a "whole." By examining the behavioral dimension of network governance, this article identifies a specific tension that network leaders address to effectively govern networks: although unity and diversity are essential to n…
Assessing Qualitative Studies in Public Administration Research
Systematic reviews of research methods in the public administration field have assessed the progress of research practice and offered relevant recommendations to further develop research quality. But most recent reviews examine quantitative studies, and the few assessments of qualitative scholarship tend to focus on specific dimensions. This article calls attention to the overall practice of qualitative research in the field of public administrat…
Collective Leadership and Context in Public Administration: Bridging Public Leadership Research and Leadership Studies
This article challenges the view that public leadership research should maintain a separate perspective in the study of public leadership. It discusses the benefits of further embedding the public leadership research domain within leadership studies, constructing a cross‐fertilization that contributes to advance both. The article maps key concerns in relational leadership theories, contrasting them with current work in the public leadership resea…
Narrative Inquiry and the Search for Connectedness: Practitioners and Academics Developing Public Administration Scholarship
Maintaining a vibrant field of public administration requires ongoing efforts to link the worlds of academic researchers and practitioners. We suggest that research itself, traditionally pursued by academics, is a promising mechanism for making this connection. In particular, researchers and practitioners in public administration can do research together in a way that enhances mutual learning, draws on the strengths of each to create useful knowl…
Collective dimensions of leadership: Connecting theory and method
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 co…
From Consent to Mutual Inquiry: Balancing Democracy and Authority in Action Research
The Leadership for a Changing World (LCW) program is a joint endeavor between the Ford Foundation, the Advocacy Institute, and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. This paper focuses on the experiences of the Research and Documentation component of LCW – lead by a research team from the Wagner School – during the initial implementation phases of the research. This component formed an inquiry group consisting of both academic re…
Studying collective leadership: The road ahead
In the concluding article, we move from providing a map of the collective leadership (CL) research field that has been conducted to date to providing a travel guide that we hope can inspire both experienced and novice travelers to push out the frontiers of exploration of CL. A Rapid Appraisal analysis of the extant CL research revealed that most of the work to date has focused on shared and distributed leadership; taken an empirical rather than a…
Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Qualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that their leaders developed practices as a response to two paradoxical requirements of network collaboration: managing unity and diversity when doing inward work and confrontation and dialogue when d…
Enhancing Methodological Reporting in Public Administration: The Functional Equivalents Framework
Public administration scholarship reflects a multidisciplinary field in which many theoretical perspectives coexist. However, one of the dark sides of such theoretical pluralism is methodological fragmentation. It may be hard to assess the research quality and to engage with the findings from studies employing different methodologies, thus limiting meaningful conversations. Moreover, the constant race across social sciences to make methodologies …
Understanding Cooperative Behavior in Labor Management Cooperation: A Theory‐Building Exercise
This article proposes a theory of how mandated institutional cooperation transforms into individual cooperative behavior. Using qualitative strategies, we draw insights about cooperation in three public‐sector efforts of labor‐management cooperation (LMC). We report an association between critical shifts in the roles of stakeholders and the change from adversarial to cooperative labor relations. While managers became team players along with their…
Public Administration Research and the Field's Identity
Weaving Color Lines: Race, Ethnicity, and the Work of Leadership in Social Change Organizations
For social change organizations working to address intractable social problems throughou the US tackling race may not only be unavoidable, it may also represent away to fully engage stakeholders in social change work. We argue that illuminating the relationship between race and leaders hip can advance our understanding of how social change leadership happens in practice. We build upon scholarship that emphasizes the ways in which seemingly essent…
Picturing peace: Murals and memory in Colombia
The painting of murals and graffiti is a widespread and well-established practice in Colombia. Most of the artwork is not directly political. However, a significant number of murals speak directly to the political problems of the society; to the protracted violent political conflict and the emerging peace process in Colombia. That articulation varies through different regions in Colombia, depending on the balance of forces between guerrillas, for…
The dialectics of leadership identity construction: Case studies from Indigenous women leaders
Challenging oversimplified models, the leader identity literature calls for new perspectives of leadership identity construction (LIC). Using a collective leadership lens and narrative methods, this collaborative study explores how Indigenous women’s leadership identities develop within a contest for power and voice. Observations, interviews, and micro-ethnographies helped identify how history, community dynamics and cultural contradictions influ…
Advancing constructionist leadership research through paradigm interplay: An application in the leadership–trust domain
While relational leadership constructionist scholarship has gained a powerful voice in the leadership conversation, mainstream leadership studies continue to ignore its contributions. Paradigm interplay represents an approach to knowledge construction that may help constructionists contribute to the cumulative relational leadership conversation, while reasserting their interpretive commitments. The article first explains why paradigm interplay is…
Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality
Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality
Understanding Cooperative Behavior in Labor Management Cooperation: A Theory‐Building Exercise
This article proposes a theory of how mandated institutional cooperation transforms into individual cooperative behavior. Using qualitative strategies, we draw insights about cooperation in three public‐sector efforts of labor‐management cooperation (LMC). We report an association between critical shifts in the roles of stakeholders and the change from adversarial to cooperative labor relations. While managers became team players along with their…
From Consent to Mutual Inquiry: Balancing Democracy and Authority in Action Research
The Leadership for a Changing World (LCW) program is a joint endeavor between the Ford Foundation, the Advocacy Institute, and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. This paper focuses on the experiences of the Research and Documentation component of LCW – lead by a research team from the Wagner School – during the initial implementation phases of the research. This component formed an inquiry group consisting of both academic re…
It's About Time: Catching Method Up to Meaning-The Usefulness of Narrative Inquiry in Public Administration Research
As a form of interpretive research, narrative inquiry contributes to the pursuit of high-quality public administration scholarship, along with other forms of explanatory research that have dominated the field. In this article we discuss the unique features of narrative inquiry, review how this research orientation has been used in public administration, and use our experience with a national, multimodal, multiyear research project on social-chang…
Narrative Inquiry and the Search for Connectedness: Practitioners and Academics Developing Public Administration Scholarship
Maintaining a vibrant field of public administration requires ongoing efforts to link the worlds of academic researchers and practitioners. We suggest that research itself, traditionally pursued by academics, is a promising mechanism for making this connection. In particular, researchers and practitioners in public administration can do research together in a way that enhances mutual learning, draws on the strengths of each to create useful knowl…
Integrating Rigor and Relevance in Public Administration Scholarship: The Contribution of Narrative Inquiry
A traditional view of scholarly quality defines rigor as the application of method and assumes an implicit connection with relevance. But as an applied field, public administration requires explicit attention to both rigor and relevance. Interpretive scholars' notions of rigor demand an explicit inclusion of relevance as an integral aspect of quality. As one form of interpretive research, narrative inquiry illuminates how this can be done. We use…
Celebrating the legacy of Orlando Fals Borda
Weaving Color Lines: Race, Ethnicity, and the Work of Leadership in Social Change Organizations
For social change organizations working to address intractable social problems throughou the US tackling race may not only be unavoidable, it may also represent away to fully engage stakeholders in social change work. We argue that illuminating the relationship between race and leaders hip can advance our understanding of how social change leadership happens in practice. We build upon scholarship that emphasizes the ways in which seemingly essent…
Paradox and Collaboration in Network Management
Qualitative evidence from action networks is used to answer the research question, How do leaders of successful networks manage collaboration challenges to make things happen? This study of two urban immigration coalitions in the United States found that their leaders developed practices as a response to two paradoxical requirements of network collaboration: managing unity and diversity when doing inward work and confrontation and dialogue when d…
Public Administration Research and the Field's Identity
The Behavioral Dimension of Governing Interorganizational Goal-Directed Networks--Managing the Unity-Diversity Tension
Network management research documents how network members engage in activities to advance their own goals. However, this literature offers little insight into the nature of work that aims to advance the goals of the network as a "whole." By examining the behavioral dimension of network governance, this article identifies a specific tension that network leaders address to effectively govern networks: although unity and diversity are essential to n…
Leadership Styles
Leadership is generally understood as an unequal influence process between one or more individuals and a larger group, which is intended to achieve a collective goal. Research on race, ethnicity, and leadership has a long history and occurs in numerous disciplines, for instance psychology, political science, management, and education. Overall, this work falls into three large groupings, which look at how race and ethnicity influence perceptions o…
Collective Leadership and Context in Public Administration: Bridging Public Leadership Research and Leadership Studies
This article challenges the view that public leadership research should maintain a separate perspective in the study of public leadership. It discusses the benefits of further embedding the public leadership research domain within leadership studies, constructing a cross‐fertilization that contributes to advance both. The article maps key concerns in relational leadership theories, contrasting them with current work in the public leadership resea…
Social Innovation and Democratic Leadership: Communities and Social Change from Below
Assessing Qualitative Studies in Public Administration Research
Systematic reviews of research methods in the public administration field have assessed the progress of research practice and offered relevant recommendations to further develop research quality. But most recent reviews examine quantitative studies, and the few assessments of qualitative scholarship tend to focus on specific dimensions. This article calls attention to the overall practice of qualitative research in the field of public administrat…
Picturing peace: Murals and memory in Colombia
The painting of murals and graffiti is a widespread and well-established practice in Colombia. Most of the artwork is not directly political. However, a significant number of murals speak directly to the political problems of the society; to the protracted violent political conflict and the emerging peace process in Colombia. That articulation varies through different regions in Colombia, depending on the balance of forces between guerrillas, for…
Striving for State of the Art with Paradigm Interplay and Meta-Synthesis: Purpose-oriented Network Research Challenges and Good Research Practices as a Way Forward
With the growing amount and increasing heterogeneity of research on purpose-oriented networks (PONs) in the public sector, it is imperative to find a way to synthesize this research. Drawing on the varied research perspectives on PONs, we advance the idea of paradigm interplay and meta-synthesis as aspirations for the field and argue this is especially key if we want the study of PONs to inform practice. However, we recognize several challenges i…
Advancing constructionist leadership research through paradigm interplay: An application in the leadership–trust domain
While relational leadership constructionist scholarship has gained a powerful voice in the leadership conversation, mainstream leadership studies continue to ignore its contributions. Paradigm interplay represents an approach to knowledge construction that may help constructionists contribute to the cumulative relational leadership conversation, while reasserting their interpretive commitments. The article first explains why paradigm interplay is…
Enhancing Methodological Reporting in Public Administration: The Functional Equivalents Framework
Public administration scholarship reflects a multidisciplinary field in which many theoretical perspectives coexist. However, one of the dark sides of such theoretical pluralism is methodological fragmentation. It may be hard to assess the research quality and to engage with the findings from studies employing different methodologies, thus limiting meaningful conversations. Moreover, the constant race across social sciences to make methodologies …
Collective dimensions of leadership: Connecting theory and method
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 co…
Studying collective leadership: The road ahead
In the concluding article, we move from providing a map of the collective leadership (CL) research field that has been conducted to date to providing a travel guide that we hope can inspire both experienced and novice travelers to push out the frontiers of exploration of CL. A Rapid Appraisal analysis of the extant CL research revealed that most of the work to date has focused on shared and distributed leadership; taken an empirical rather than a…
A Framework for Assessing Accountability in Collaborative Governance: A Process-Based Approach
Despite the complexities involved around the accountability mechanisms of collaborative governance, little is known about how to assess accountability at the network level and disentangle possible accountability deficits. This study first explicates the nature of collaborative governance accountability in contrast to accountability in traditional public administration and market-based governance. The analysis shows how collaborative governance ac…
The dialectics of leadership identity construction: Case studies from Indigenous women leaders
Challenging oversimplified models, the leader identity literature calls for new perspectives of leadership identity construction (LIC). Using a collective leadership lens and narrative methods, this collaborative study explores how Indigenous women’s leadership identities develop within a contest for power and voice. Observations, interviews, and micro-ethnographies helped identify how history, community dynamics and cultural contradictions influ…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Public relations (18 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (10 works) · Social science (8 works) · Evaluation and Performance Assessment (7 works) · Leadership style (7 works) · Scholarship (7 works)