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Theoretical Foundations of Leadership in Networks

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Research on leadership in inter-organizational networks has remained scant. This chapter reviews the few studies that exist on the topic, deconstructs important basic assumptions, and sheds light on their affordances and limitations. To deal with their limitations, it argues for a reconstruction of leadership in networks from a practice-theoretical perspective, which is able to capture the dynamics of network leadership by conceptualizing leadership action and structure as recursively related over time.

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Mitterlechner, M. (2019). Theoretical Foundations of Leadership in Networks. In: Leading in Inter-Organizational Networks. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97979-3_2

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