Understanding power relations in shared leadership: displays of authority and resistance in interaction.

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    Abstract

    This research examines
    how leaders establish their authority in meeting interactions during the process of
    organisational change. By drawing on transcripts of naturally occurring meeting interactions,
    this paper demonstrates the emergent character of shared leadership and how claims to
    authority can be either granted or resisted in interaction. In accordance with the conversation
    analysis (CA) method, this research pursues an empirical, interactional approach to leadership
    by stressing its situated and intersubjective dimensions.
    The transcript of the extract presented during the conference is taken from a corpus of the
    project team meetings recorded during twelve months fieldwork in a British University. This
    corpus consists of transcriptions of ten project team meetings observed and recorded by the
    author. The transcribed dataset is over 20 hours long, giving a combined dataset of nearly
    150,000 words. Thus, the analytical claims which will be presented during the conference are
    empirically grounded in the transcript of naturally occurring talk and can be assessed by
    referring to the particular data in a transcript.
    Original languageEnglish
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    EventInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium: Leadership, Power and Politics - Greece
    Duration: 16 May 201918 May 2019
    Conference number: 4th
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    Conference

    ConferenceInterdisciplinary Perspectives on Leadership Symposium
    Abbreviated titleIPLS
    Period16/05/1918/05/19
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