In sports teams, the way in which leaders such as coaches and captains communicate with
players is vital to the success of the team. However, despite extensive psychological and …

This paper examines leadership discourse in a small, non-commercial organisation with a
hierarchical structure, a rugby club. The focus of the research is the captain of the club and …

The study of leadership has attracted scholarly attention for decades and has been studied
from various disciplines and analytical approaches; yet leadership remains an ambiguous …

This article uses an ethnographically based sociolinguistic approach to analyse ritual
interactions that took place in a New Zealand male rugby team, paying particular attention to …

Goffman's dramaturgical model of interaction is often used to examine how communicative
events are framed differently in public and private settings. However, this idea has …

Struggle is inherent in social interaction and meaning making. The argument proposed in
this chapter is that rugby coaches face a struggle when moving between private-facing (intra …

In line with recent developments in leadership research which conceptualise leadership as
a discursive and collaborative process rather than a set of static attributes and …

The purpose of this study was to examine how leader communication inspires athletes in a
team sport context. Footage of elite rugby coaches and athlete leaders delivering genuine …

This thesis explores and examines the construction of a sense of community and masculine
identity in the sport of rugby league. I pose the question of how the game constructs these …

Using the concept of distributed leadership, this paper demonstrates not only that having
multiple leaders in an organisation is an effective way of structuring leadership, but that it …