Critical leadership studies: The case for critical performativity
(2012) In Human Relations 65(3). p.367-390- Abstract
- Existing accounts of leadership are underpinned by two dominant approaches: functionalist studies, which have tried to identify correlations between variables associated with leadership; and interpretive studies, which have tried to trace out the meaning-making process associated with leadership. Eschewing these approaches, we turn to an emerging strand of literature that develops a critical approach to leadership. This literature draws our attention to the dialectics of control and resistance and the ideological aspect of leadership. However, it largely posits a negative critique of leadership. We think this is legitimate and important, but extend this agenda. We posit a performative critique of leadership that emphasizes tactics of... (More)
- Existing accounts of leadership are underpinned by two dominant approaches: functionalist studies, which have tried to identify correlations between variables associated with leadership; and interpretive studies, which have tried to trace out the meaning-making process associated with leadership. Eschewing these approaches, we turn to an emerging strand of literature that develops a critical approach to leadership. This literature draws our attention to the dialectics of control and resistance and the ideological aspect of leadership. However, it largely posits a negative critique of leadership. We think this is legitimate and important, but extend this agenda. We posit a performative critique of leadership that emphasizes tactics of circumspect care, progressive pragmatism and searching for present potentialities. We use these tactics to sketch out a practice of deliberated leadership that involves collective reflection on when, what kind and if leadership is appropriate. (Less)
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- Alvesson, Mats LU and Spicer, Andre
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- 2012
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- Contribution to journal
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- subject
- keywords
- performativity, leadership, deliberation, critical management studies
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- Human Relations
- volume
- 65
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 367 - 390
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- SAGE Publications
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- wos:000301139300004
- scopus:84857872727
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- 0018-7267
- DOI
- 10.1177/0018726711430555
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- English
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