AUTHORITY OR COMMUNITY? A RELATIONAL MODELS THEORY OF GROUP-LEVEL LEADERSHIP EMERGENCE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wellman, Ned
• 署名单位: Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2015.0375
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 596-617
• 关键词: SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY; SHARED LEADERSHIP; teams; self; network; POWER; FAULTLINES; trait; permeability; integration

摘要

In this article I develop relational models leadership theory, which explains how shared cognition produces group-level leadership emergence effects. I propose that contextual features present early in a group's life can cause members to quickly converge on one of two cognitive relational models for leadership. Some groups adopt an authority ranking model, in which leadership influence is consolidated in the hands of a few high-status members. Others adopt a communal sharing model, in which leadership is the collective responsibility of all members. A positive feedback loop develops between group members' relational model convergence and leadership emergence such that members enact leadership in a manner consistent with their shared relational model, and these interactions reinforce the model. I also identify two types of jolt events that can radically shift group members' cognitions and actions related to leadership.