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How Leadership Works

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This chapter, the final analytical chapter in the book, explores the dynamics of leadership and the different forms it can take in research project meetings. It addresses the ways in which leadership activities and processes such as decision-making, negotiating and reaching consensus are discursively constructed by team members, and how different forms of leadership are instantiated through research interactions.

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  1. Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Seongsook Choi

  2. Stratford upon Avon, UK

    Keith Richards

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Choi, S., Richards, K. (2017). How Leadership Works. In: Interdisciplinary Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47040-9_8

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