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This book presents a new theoretical and methodological framework to study leadership from a cultural-psychological and developmental perspective. This framework includes a new theory - called Small Act Psychology - and a new methodology to analyze leader-follower interactions in irreversible time. This perspective is inspired by current microgenetic (aktualgenese) developmental research within the wider domain of Cultural Psychology. Drawing on Kurt Lewin's field-theory, E.E. Boesch's Symbolic Action Theory and L.S. Vygotsky's semiotic theory, the present work defines leadership socially, and hence from a qualitative perspective, contributing to the development of a cultural-psychological theory of leadership.
This new approach seeks to break with the current prevailing paradigm of the leadership research centered round the big-hero myth and interpreting leadership as a personal quality of a given person. It also aims to feel a gap within the general literature about qualitative leadership by proposing an encompassing and wholistic theory and methodology to make sense of leader-follower interactions from a developmental perspective.
After presenting this new theory and methodology, the book also presents the results of empirical ethnographic and autoethnographic studies in which the new framework was applied. These studies provide not only empirical proof how leadership can be understood from a field-theoretical perspective but also show how leadership trajectories can change depending on specific interventions, providing evidence to the developmental nature of leadership as a social phenomenon.
Studying Leadership from a Microgenetic Perspective: Towards a Cultural-Psychological Theory of Leadership will be of interest to organizational and educational researchers, as well as qualitative psychologists in any domain of psychology striving for a theory that makes sense of leadership dynamically, and developmental psychologists interested in seeing how developmental approaches can be adopted in the study of a wide range of social phenomena.
Contents
Chapter 1 Defining Leadership as a Social Function: Beyond the Big-Hero Myth.- Chapter 2 Towards a Cultural-Psychological Theory of Leadership: Getting Inspiration from Boesch, Lewin and Vygotsky.- Chapter 3 Towards Alternative Validity Criteria for the Qualitative Study of Leadership.- Chapter 4 Case Studies, Autoethnographies, and Ethnographies: Insights for Qualitative Leadership Research.- Chapter 5 Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Interpretations of Ethnographic Leadership Patterns.- Chapter 6 Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Interpretations of Autoethnographic Leadership Patterns.- Chapter 7 Digesting Field-Theoretical Findings Personally: Between a Letter to One's Future Self and a Policy Brief.- Chapter 8 Lessons Learnt from Autoethnographic and Ethnographic Methodology in the Qualitative Study of Leadership.- Chapter 9 Pitfalls and Future Research Directions of Cultural-Psychological Leadership.- Chapter 10 Towards an Actualized Cultural-Psychological Theory of Leadership.
