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The Connecting Leader: Serving Concurrently as a Leader and a Follower - CALL FOR CHAPTERS

  • 1.  The Connecting Leader: Serving Concurrently as a Leader and a Follower - CALL FOR CHAPTERS

    Posted 07-16-2018 07:58

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    CALL FOR CHAPTERS

    We are calling for chapters for 'The Connecting Leader: Serving Concurrently as a Leader and a Follower' the latest volume of Leadership Horizon, a series by Information Age Publishing

     

    Zahira Jaser (Book Editor) - Zahira.Jaser@cass.city.ac.uk 

    Melissa Carsten (Series Editor)

    Michelle Bligh (Series Editor)

     

    THE IDEA

    A Connecting Leader acts as a bridge to multiple leadership relationships, occupying in one situation the place of a leader, and in another the place of a follower. This perspective pushes beyond current leadership conventions, which see leaders and followers embedded in their interactions with one other as co-constructors of relationships, roles, and identities in the mutual effort to achieve leadership outcomes. 

     

    The Connecting Leader perspective examines one individual embodying both roles, identities, and positions, and contributing concurrently to multiple leadership relationships from two different perspectives. This book stretches our notion of leadership by exploring the predicament of individuals embodying both leader and follower identities concurrently. It challenges the way we think about leadership by exploring the phenomenon of an individual as both an effective leader and an effective follower. 

     

    TIMELINES AND SUBMISSIONS

    Abstract Submission (500 words): August 31, 2018

    Full Chapter Submission: January 31, 2019

    Submission of Revised Chapters: May 31, 2019

    Please submit all chapters to Zahira Jaser via email: Zahira.Jaser@cass.city.ac.uk  

     

    NOTEZahira Jaser is available to meet scholars interested in this topic to discuss possible contributions at the 2018 Academy of Management Meetings, Chicago, IL (Aug 10-14, 2018).

     

    TOPICS OF INTEREST 

    We have already received interest for chapters from eminent scholars who are writing through the perspectives of Implicit Leadership Theories, Paradox, Critical Management Studies, Identity, Identification, Network Analysis, Conversation Analysis.

     

    We also welcome the following topics, and more:

    • How does one individual juggle the dual identity of leader and follower? 
    • How does one create plausibility of meanings between their own leaders and their own followers? 
    • What are the consequences of incompatible constructions (implicit theories) of leadership and followership? 
    • What are the personal characteristics that can predict effective concurrent leading and following? 
    • How do connecting leaders balance the competing demands that come from their own leaders and their own followers? 
    • What are the personal costs of being both an effective leader and an effective follower? 
    • Do all individuals give equal weights to both roles? Why, why not? 
    • Do all contexts encourage an individual to give equal weight to both roles? 
    • Does focusing on Connecting Leaders help us transcend views of heroic leadership? 
    • Can Connecting Leaders be studied through networks analysis? 
    • Focus on constructionist, realist and critical aspects of the phenomenon of Connecting Leaders 

     

     

     

    Zahira Jaser | Visiting Lecturer and PhD Fellow

    Cass Business School | City University London
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