Spacing leadership as an embodied and performative process

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12883237
AutoresArja Ropo (Tampere University, autor correspondente), Perttu Salovaara (0000-0003-4936-5708, Tampere University)
Ano2018
Volume15
Fascículo4
Páginas461-479
Data de publicação2018-04-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLeadership (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1742-7150 • E-ISSN: 1742-7169
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1742715018768707
OpenAlexW2799807452
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas95

Aligned with the recent stream of research on the materiality of organizing, in this article, we develop a conceptualization of leadership as a sociomaterial relationship between human and space. We join the emerging discussions on the ‘thing-ness’ of leadership and extend these by addressing how an aesthetic, sense-based and embodied knowledge constitutes the sociomateriality of leadership and organizing. With the help of a Lefebvre-inspired framework, we introduce the concept of ‘spacing leadership’ that explicates leadership as being produced in an embodied and performative process between people and space. To specify this, we thematise three aesthetically embodied categories of knowledge development – senses, feelings and memories – to depict a sociomaterial understanding of leadership and space

Aesthetics · Conceptualization · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feeling · Materiality (auditing · Performative utterance · Performativity · Process (computing · Sociology · Computer Science · Management and Organizational Studies · Management Theory and Practice · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy