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Mats Alvesson
Professor
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Critical leadership studies: The case for critical performativity
Författare
Summary, in English
Existing accounts of leadership are underpinned by two dominant approaches: functionalist studies, which have tried to identify correlations between variables associated with leadership; and interpretive studies, which have tried to trace out the meaning-making process associated with leadership. Eschewing these approaches, we turn to an emerging strand of literature that develops a critical approach to leadership. This literature draws our attention to the dialectics of control and resistance and the ideological aspect of leadership. However, it largely posits a negative critique of leadership. We think this is legitimate and important, but extend this agenda. We posit a performative critique of leadership that emphasizes tactics of circumspect care, progressive pragmatism and searching for present potentialities. We use these tactics to sketch out a practice of deliberated leadership that involves collective reflection on when, what kind and if leadership is appropriate.
Avdelning/ar
- Företagsekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2012
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
367-390
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Human Relations
Volym
65
Issue
3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Business Administration
Nyckelord
- performativity
- leadership
- deliberation
- critical management studies
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0018-7267