Invoking Cleopatra to examine the shifting ground of leadership

Riad, Sally

doi:10.1016/j.leaqua.2011.07.006

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“…Instead, our article is positioned with recent work that has advanced our understanding of the racialised nature of leadership (Ospina and Foldy, 2009;Ospina and Su, 2009;Riad, 2011;Sinclair, 2005Sinclair, , 2007, and extends their focus on non-white leaders to reveal the invisible valorisation of whiteness in these heroic constructs where 'doing leadership' is inextricably linked to 'doing whiteness'.…”

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White Knights: Leadership as the heroicisation of whiteness

Liu

Baker

2016

Leadership

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This article draws on critical race theory to interrogate whiteness in dominant discourses of leadership. We conducted a discourse analysis of the media representations of 12 business leaders engaged in philanthropy in Australia to demonstrate how white practices of normalisation, solipsism and ontological expansiveness underpin the construction of white leaders as speaking for society, mastering all environments and self-sacrificing for the greater good. Our analysis suggests that 'doing leadership' is inextricably linked to 'doing whiteness', while the invisible presence of whiteness in leadership discourses sustains white power and privilege. By 'naming' whiteness and its practices, we aspire to unhinge it from its location as transparent, dominant and ordinary, and begin theorising leadership in ways that are conducive to the goals of racial equality.Leadership 0(0) 1-29

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confidence: 99%

White Knights: Leadership as the heroicisation of whiteness

Liu

Baker

2016

Leadership

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“…Only five (less than 2%) were genuinely indigenous studies in non-Western contexts. We analyzed those five papers and found that they used qualitative methods, such as case study (Campbell, 2008;Neal & Tansey, 2010), cultural analysis (Riad, 2011), narrative (Islam, 2009), and a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods (Yang, 2011). Three of these five indigenous studies were conducted by Western scholars in non-Western contexts.…”

Section: Lack Of Indigenous Leadership Research In the Non-western Comentioning

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Understanding indigenous leadership research: Explication and Chinese examples

Zhang

et al. 2012

The Leadership Quarterly

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“…As a result, our review shows that the last decade has seen a surge of non‐positivist cultural research into leadership in indigenous communities and practices (Bolden and Kirk ; Campbell ; Islam ; Neal and Tansey ; Riad ; Sveiby ; Turnbull et al . ; Warner and Grint ; Yang ; Zhang et al .…”

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“…As a result, our review shows that the last decade has seen a surge of non-positivist cultural research into leadership in indigenous communities and practices (Bolden and Kirk 2009;Campbell 2008;Islam 2009;Neal and Tansey 2010;Riad 2011;Sveiby 2011;Turnbull et al 2012;Warner and Grint 2006;Yang 2011;Zhang et al 2012), studies using a communicative approach (Brummans and Hwang 2010;Lin and Clair 2007;Xu 2011) and/or focusing on different languages (Jepson 2010;Prince 2006) and research exploring the historicity of language and culture (Peltonen 2012). Postcolonial critiques, increasingly popular in other fields of management studies (see Jack et al 2011), are also beginning to emerge (Nkomo 2011;Srinivas 2013), building on an existing but not well-known body of literature on non-western forms of leadership (see e.g.…”

Section: Emic Non-positivist Studies On Leadership and Culturementioning

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Working with Language: A Refocused Research Agenda for Cultural Leadership Studies

Schedlitzki

Ahonen

Wankhade

et al. 2016

Int J Management Reviews

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This paper critically reviews existing contributions from the field of cultural leadership studies with a view to highlighting the conceptual and methodological limitations of the dominant etic, cross-cultural approach in leadership studies and illuminating implications of the relative dominance and unreflective use of the English language as the academic and business lingua franca within this field. It subsequently outlines the negative implications of overlooking cultural and linguistic multiplicity for an understanding of culturally sensitive leadership practices. In drawing on lessons from this critical review and the emergent fields of emic, non-positivist cultural leadership studies, this analysis argues that the field of cultural leadership studies requires an alternative research agenda focused on language multiplicity, which enables the field to move towards emic, qualitative research that helps to empower individual cultural voices and explore cultural intra-and interrelationships, tensions and paradoxes embedded in leadership processes. The paper concludes by offering suggestions on methodological approaches for emic cultural leadership studies that are centred on the exploration of language as a cultural voice.

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Invoking Cleopatra to examine the shifting ground of leadership

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

White Knights: Leadership as the heroicisation of whiteness

White Knights: Leadership as the heroicisation of whiteness

Understanding indigenous leadership research: Explication and Chinese examples

Working with Language: A Refocused Research Agenda for Cultural Leadership Studies

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