Distributed leadership as a unit of analysis
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DL views leadership not through an individual leader's attributes and behaviours, but instead as aggregated between some, many, or all members of a group or organisation.
“Whilst DL has been associated with a variety of meanings and practice (Woods et al., 2004), it views leadership not through an individual leader's attributes and behaviours, but instead as aggregated between some, many, or indeed, all members of a group or organisation (Gronn, 2002; Woods et al., 2004; Bolden, 2011) with individuals leading when and where they have expertise (Liang and Sandmann, 2”
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- Authors
- Gronn, P.
- Affiliations
- Monash University (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Gronn, Peter
- ORCID
- Gronn, Peter
- Venue
- The Leadership Quarterly
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 423-451
- ISSN
- 1048-9843 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1994173157
- Cited by
- 2,059
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 127 · 2025: 104 · 2024: 82 · 2023: 92 · 2022: 144 · 2021: 115 · 2020: 117 · 2019: 109 · 2018: 107 · 2017: 102 · 2016: 120 · 2015: 112 · 2014: 123 · 2013: 108 · 2012: 95
- FWCI
- 16.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Leadership Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Leadership and Management in Organizations
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- distributed leadership, unit of analysis, division of labor, interdependence, coordination, distributed practice, levels of analysis, leadership as a process
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