This article explores how leadership is done in a 'leaderless' team. Drawing on a corpus of
more than 120 hours of audio-recorded meetings of different interdisciplinary research …

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in distributed approaches to leadership
which place the emphasis on team processes rather than harping back to heroic notions of …

Meetings are increasingly seen as sites where organizing and strategic change take place,
but the role of specific discursive strategies and related linguistic-pragmatic and …

Drawing on literature conceptualising leadership as a discursive accomplishment, this paper
defines leadership as leadership work: a process unfolding through talk and depending on a …

Management scholars have explored how certain actors in meetings–especially leaders–
shape social processes of interaction and use different linguistic devices, as methods, to …

Our study of the travel agency Flight Centre began as a case study of a company that
appears to be a 'success story'in what is a highly competitive industry. In the course of our …

This article makes a case for investigating leadership from a micro-interactional perspective
which integrates discursive, sequential and multimodal analytical layers. It thus builds on …

How does organizing proceed when leadership is both shared and hierarchical? Who sets
the context, how and when do people share influence, and who produces authoritative texts …

Gail Fairhurst's book (2007) on discursive leadership is a highly welcome contribution to the
endeavor of establishing discourse analysis as a substantial approach to management …

Traditionally leadership studies have focussed on psychological and quantitative
approaches that have offered limited insights into the achievement of leader identity as an …