Identity has emerged as a potent force in understanding leadership. This chapter reviews the contributions of role identity, social identity, and social construction theories toward …
Purpose Leadership theories have moved from viewing leadership as an innate trait, towards models that recognise leadership as a social construction. Alongside this …
This article explores a new approach to researching leadership in organizations through drawing on psychosocial accounts of the lives of managers as leaders. This study of …
A Sinclair - The Sage handbook of leadership, 2011 - torrossa.com
Identity has been a central concern of social theorising for several decades, making appearances in the work of sociologists (Berger and Luckmann, 1966; Giddens, 1991) …
HR Bowles - Research in Organizational Behavior, 2012 - Elsevier
Career stories of 50 female executives from major corporations and high-growth entrepreneurial ventures suggest two alternative accounts of how women legitimize their …
KL Suyemoto, MB Ballou - Women and leadership …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Leadership and related phenomena—such as power, authority and influence—have been the subject of much theorizing, research, and certainly practice. While numerous models of …
This article examines elite business careers through the dual lens of sensemaking and storytelling as recounted in life-history interviews with business leaders. It explores how they …
DN Smith, S Suby-Long - Advancing Women in Leadership …, 2019 - awl-ojs-tamu.tdl.org
This qualitative study explored ten women leaders' perspectives about the processes associated with constructing their leadership and purpose stories or narratives. The study …
RJ Ely, H Ibarra, DM Kolb - Academy of management learning & …, 2011 - journals.aom.org
We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women …