Clifton2012
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Jonathan Clifton |
| Title | A Discursive Approach to Leadership: Doing Assessments and Managing Organizational Meanings |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, discursive leadership, discourse, assessments, social constructionism, decision making, framing |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Journal | Journal of Business Communication |
| Volume | 49 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 148–168 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021943612437762 |
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Abstract
Despite the recent interest in discursive approaches to leadership, relatively little research actually provides fine-grained analyses of how leadership is dialogically achieved in interaction. Taking a social constructionist approach to leadership and using discursive constructionism as a research methodology to analyze transcripts of naturally occurring talk-in-interaction, this article explicates the doing of leadership as a member’s accomplishment. It defines leadership in terms of being able to influence the management of meaning through the way in which decisions are framed using assessments. In this way, certain meanings are privileged over others and so meaning is managed. Findings support current theories of leadership that show it to be a distributed process rather than the possession of any one person. Furthermore, it is argued that by highlighting discursive techniques by which leadership is achieved, the results of this research can benefit practitioners.
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