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Reimagining leadership in sport management: lessons from the social construction of leadership

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posted on 2017-09-15, 13:40 authored by Jon Billsberry, Jacqueline Mueller, James Skinner, Steve Swanson, Ben Corbett, Lesley Ferkins
Conventional approaches to leadership in sport management regard leadership as a leader-centric phenomenon. Recent advances in the generic leadership literature have highlighted the way that people construct their own understanding of leadership and shown that these influence their assessment and responses to people they regard as leaders. This observer-centric perspective is collectively known as the social construction of leadership. In this conceptual paper, we demonstrate how this emerging theoretical approach can reframe and invigorate our understanding of leadership in sport management. We explore the research implications of this new approach, reflect on what this might mean for teaching, and discuss the practical ramifications for leadership in sport management that might flow from the adoption of this approach.

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  • Loughborough University London

Published in

Journal of Sport Management

Volume

32

Issue

2

Pages

170-182

Citation

BILLSBERRY, J. ... et al, 2017. Reimagining leadership in sport management: lessons from the social construction of leadership. Journal of Sport Management, 32 (2), pp.170-182.

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© Human Kinetics

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-09-05

Publication date

2018-03-31

Copyright date

2018

Notes

Accepted author manuscript version reprinted, by permission, from Journal of Sport Management, 2017, 32 (2): pp170-pp182, https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2017-0210. © Human Kinetics, Inc.

ISSN

0888-4773

eISSN

1543-270X

Language

  • en

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