“…Little attention is given to those performing informal and distributed forms of leadership, such as professors (Evans, 2017;Lindholm, 2004;Rehbock et al, 2021). This is despite the fact that the Professoriate represents a crucial intellectual resource for higher education institutions [HEIs] (Evans, 2022;Rehbock et al, 2021). In this paper, we distinguish between academic management, which concentrates on the administration of academic tasks and processes to achieve predefined outcomes, and academic leadership, which is more broadly comprehended and is most significant in terms of academic identity (Bolden et al, 2012).…”