Shaping Civil Society Leaders
Horizontal and Vertical Boundary Work in Swedish Leadership Training Programmes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12249583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niklas Altermark (0000-0001-7114-1431, corresponding author), Helena Johansson (0000-0003-1523-3088), Håkan Johansson (0000-0001-6329-9132), Simon Stattin |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1025-1035 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Voluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11266-022-00519-x |
| OpenAlex | W4295009460 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
Civil society leadership training programmes are a new phenomenon, and they are often overlooked by civil society scholarship despite being linked to the professionalisation of the sector. In this article, we examine 14 Swedish leadership programmes in order to identify leadership ideals in the sector. Drawing on the notion of ‘symbolic boundaries’, we argue that leadership programmes produce horizontal boundaries in relation to other societal sectors and vertical boundaries between leaders of the sector and other members. Together, these symbolic boundaries form a leadership ideal that detaches leaders from their organisation and internal democratic processes, instead depicting leadership as a question of personal characteristics and values. Leaders in the sector need to be authentic and to anchor their leadership in the personal values they hold. Theoretically, our analytical model may prove useful in the study of other empirical phenomena in civil society
Boundary-work · Civil society · Democracy · Epistemology · Horizontal and vertical · Leadership style · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Scholarship · Shared leadership · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development · Service-Learning and Community Engagement
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Symbolic Boundaries
New patterns of management
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State and Civil Society in Northern Europe
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Does transformational leadership build resilient public and nonprofit organizations
Beyond Nonprofits
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Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture
Leadership and charisma
Boundary processes
On the Tracks of Symbolic Power
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |