10 The critical edge of studies of leadership in interaction
What is leadership in interaction?
Although leadership is a phenomenon reasonably found in human interaction, the scholarly literature has until recently included very few observational studies of leadership as it happens and plays out in work practices. Gronn made an early and strong case for both observing and investigating workplace interactions because “the power to control must be worked at linguistically and worked at never-endingly as an ongoing everyday activity” (1983, p. 20). In the last few decades, a body of literature has emerged that begins to respond to Gronn's call. Gail Fairhurst's (2007) seminal book Discursive Leadership ...
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