Exploring distributed leadership

Solving disagreements and negotiating consensus in a ‘leaderless’ team

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5966476
AutoresSeongsook Choi (0000-0002-3492-9569, University of Warwick, autor correspondente), Stephanie Schnurr (0000-0001-5601-7491, University of Warwick)
Ano2014
Volume16
Fascículo1
Páginas3-24
Data de publicação2014-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDiscourse Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4456 • E-ISSN: 1461-7080
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1461445613508891
OpenAlexW2132068369
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas45

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

Conflict resolution · Leadership studies · Leadership style · Negotiation · Political science · Public relations · Shared leadership · Social science · Sociology · Transactional leadership · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology