The romance of human leaders? A socio-material analysis of a follower’s account of being inspired

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dc.contributor.authorJoy Mueni
dc.contributor.authorJonathan Clifton
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-15T08:58:12Z
dc.date.available2024-08-15T08:58:12Z
dc.date.issued2020-11-09
dc.description.abstractThe romance of leadership (ROL) has been much discussed amongst leadership researchers, yet few researchers actually analyze the way in which it is talked into being as it is socially constructed in the here-and now of localized interaction. Drawing on the Montreal School’s interactional twist to Actor Network Theory with which to analyze transcripts of interview talk from a socio-material perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the way in which a follower discursively constructs leadership. Findings indicate that, from the follower’s emic perspective, leadership occurs within a network of human and other-than-human actants that inspire her to act and follow the leader. This therefore challenges and nuances the conventional wisdom of leadership research that locates the ROL in the purely human leader. The implication of this for leadership research is clear: if followers construct (transformational) leadership in terms of socio-materiality, then so should leadership researchers.
dc.identifier.citationJonathan Clifton & Joy Mueni (2021) The romance of human leaders? A socio-material analysis of a follower’s account of being inspired, Culture and Organization, 27:5, 386-402, DOI: 10.1080/14759551.2020.1844203
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.ru.ac.ke/handle/123456789/76
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCulture and Organization
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVOL. 27, NO. 5
dc.subjectMontreal School
dc.subjectsocio-materiality
dc.subjectromance of leadership
dc.subjecttransformational leadership
dc.subjectdiscursive leadership
dc.subjectinspiration
dc.titleThe romance of human leaders? A socio-material analysis of a follower’s account of being inspired
dc.typeArticle

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