6 Leadership, power, and politics
Leadership research seems to shy away from an agentic view on power: ways of approaching power that take the interests, wants, and agendas of reflexive actors clearly into account. In mainstream leadership theory the question of power is downplayed, and the less provocative term “influence” is commonly preferred. Critical scholarship has drawn attention to power, yet often in more abstract terms, such as subjectivity or ideology, where power is understood from a structural, discursive, or similar view, and therefore less connected to reflexivity and actionable strategies of emancipation. In this chapter, we propose an approach to leadership research ...
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