Gleibs, Ilka Helene 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9913-250X
(2025)
Filling the void- creating identity content in crisis leadership.
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2025 (1).
ISSN 0065-0668
Abstract
Drawing on the Social Identity Approach to Crisis Leadership (Gleibs, 2024), this paper examines how leaders construct shared identity content during crises. Using President Zelenskyy's wartime leadership as a case study, we analyze how identity content is co-created between leaders and (implied) followers. Building on our previous work on identity leadership during crisis (Gleibs, Bachmann, & Rüsch, 2024; Gleibs, 2024), this study employs dialogical analysis (Gillespie & Cornish, 2010) to examine Zelenskyy's speeches to allies (e.g., UK, USA, and Germany; N=8). Our analysis focuses on how leaders, as 'identity entrepreneurs,' craft a sense of shared identity through rhetorical strategies and category boundary construction that includes I-positions (as president and leader of Ukraine; a prototypical Ukraine) and Other-positions (as an ally, as the enemy).
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | © Academy of Management Proceedings |
| Divisions: | Psychological and Behavioural Science |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2025 15:21 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2025 15:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130428 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
