Professor Peter Case Peter.Case@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Organization Studies
Leadership-As-Practice: Appreciation, critique and future directions
Case, Peter; Śliwa, Martyna
Authors
Martyna Śliwa
Contributors
David Knights
Editor
Helena Liu
Editor
Owain Smolovic-Jones
Editor
Suze Wilson
Editor
Abstract
This chapter addresses Leadership-As-Practice (L-A-P) : a perspective on leadership which, rather than focusing on individual leaders and followers, draws attention to the importance of collective practices and sociomateriality in leadership processes. It emphasises the potential of leadership for building more democratic and just organisations, institutions and societies. The chapter is underpinned by the argument that, notwithstanding L-A-P’s continuing positive role within broader leadership scholarship, the time is now ripe to engage in a critical appraisal this approach and to outline constructive directions for its future development. The view of L-A-P presented combines appreciation and critique. The chapter begins with a brief overview of L-A-P before offering a critical discussion that considers: 1) the historico-geographical positioning of the intellectual development of L-A-P in the Western, post-war, post-colonial context; 2) the limited empirical applications of the L-A-P approach to contexts where values of democracy and collective decision-making do not prevail; 3) questions of agency and power within L-A-P, and the need for examining inequalities with regard to the unfolding of leadership practice. Possible future directions for the development of L-A-P are considered in the concluding part of the chapter.
Online Publication Date | May 23, 2024 |
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Publication Date | May 24, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Aug 1, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 24, 2025 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Book Title | The Routledge Critical Companion to Leadership Studies |
Chapter Number | 13 |
ISBN | 9781032425153 |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/12729465 |
Publisher URL | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003363125-15/leadership-practice-martyna-%C5%9Bliwa-peter-case?context=ubx&refId=7b6d9651-7a48-45f8-9c7a-096c1e828593 |
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