Researching Leadership-As-Practice: The Reappearing Act of Leadership

The book provides a theoretical framework and practical guidance for capturing, identifying, and analyzing evidence of leadership practice emergence, and offers implications for leadership academics and practitioners. It is based on cultural-historical activity theory and critical realism and conceptualizes leadership practice by placing agents' actions and interactions within the context of their relationships, objectives, experiences, material and non-material artefacts, and wider organizing processes and organizational structures.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 232 pages
\n Publication date: 20 April 2021
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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One of the major challenges in conducting research from a leadership-as-practice perspective is the practical aspect of capturing and analyzing the elusive practice of leadership within the intricate web of mundane organizing processes. While numerous researchers have attempted to address this issue, a definitive guide to making sense of the empirical manifestations of leadership practices has yet to be established.

In response to this challenge, the book offers a comprehensive theoretical framework and practical guidance for capturing, identifying, and analyzing evidence of leadership practice emergence. It provides implications of this approach for leadership academics and practitioners. The developed framework enables a method for understanding these leadership instances as they are enacted by individuals within and against the evolving activities of their day-to-day work.

The framework is grounded in cultural-historical activity theory and critical realism, conceptualizing leadership practice by placing agents' actions and interactions within the context of their relationships, objectives, experiences, material and non-material artifacts, and wider organizing processes and organizational structures. This approach has not been undertaken in the field of leadership research, providing a strong theoretical foundation for further development of our understanding of leadership-as-practice.

The book offers methodological guidance for undertaking leadership-as-practice research, facilitating a discussion on the various underlying processes and elements that emerge from empirical observations. It will be of value to researchers, academics, professionals, and students in the fields of business and management, with a particular interest in management theory, organizational studies, and leadership research.

\n Weight: 506g\n
Dimension: 158 x 236 x 21 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367321079\n \n