13 Leadership-as-practice Appreciation, critique, and future directions
Introduction
The Leadership-As-Practice (L-A-P) approach (e.g., Raelin, 2016a; Raelin et al., 2018) has offered a refreshing and insightful lens for studying and understanding leadership processes. Viewing leadership as a collective socio-material achievement, L-A-P questions fundamental ontological assumptions and received wisdom about leadership; refocusing attention away from who (extraordinary) individuals are, to what ordinary people and objects do as they engage in leadership. L-A-P proposes a conception of leadership that emphasizes the importance of process and emergence (Raelin, 2020), and that does not ...
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