On leaders’ presence: interactions and influences within online communities
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By conceptualising presence as a behavioural construct, this study explores how online leaders’ presence exerts an influence on online communities and their members. Drawing on qualitative research where five online communities were examined, the findings show that online leaders’ presence is identified in different forms which ultimately may have different impacts on the community and its members. Articulations of leaders’ presence online included interactive, instructive, stimulating and silent and for each the leader was found to exert a different influence on online community members. The theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed and areas for further research are identified.
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Online communities can provide shelter for members and a sense of place where members feel empowered to freely express themselves and get involved in stimulating discussions.
“OCs can be used for providing a shelter for their members (Vaast & Levina, 2015) and a sense of place where members feel empowered to freely express themselves and get involved in stimulating discussions (Panteli, 2016).”
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- Authors
- Panteli, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Bath (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Panteli, Niki
- ORCID
- Panteli, Niki
- Venue
- Behaviour & Information Technology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2016-03-07
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 490-499
- ISSN
- 0144-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1362-3001
- OpenAlex
- W2296198685
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 44
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 11.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- correction (2016-03-17)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behaviour and Information Technology (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Dstl CDE (This work was funded by Dstl (Ref CDE16034))
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Online and Blended Learning
- Social Sciences › Communication › Knowledge Management and Sharing
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
- Keywords
- online leadership, online communities, community members, leadership influence, interactive leadership
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