Emery, Christian, Carnabuci, Gianluca and Brinberg, David (2011) Relational schemas to investigate the process of leadership emergence. In: Academy of Management Annual Meeting: West Meets East: Enlightening, Balancing, and Transcending, 2011-08-12 - 2011-08-16, San Antonio, United States, USA.
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Distancing itself from the traditional focus of leadership research on the behaviors and traits characteristic of "leaders," the paper argues that leaders emerge out of a process of social construction. Drawing from relational schema theory, it is argued that group members form leadership perceptions that conform to a limited set of shared "hierarchical" relational schemas. Accordingly, whenever the leadership perceptions of an individual do not conform (i.e., they are hierarchically inconsistent) with those of other group members, he/she is induced to reduce such inconsistencies by aligning his/her own leadership perceptions. The paper tests this argument using a multi-method, multi-study approach. Study 1 follows the process of leadership emergence within a newly formed social group, showing how hierarchical relational schemas are reflected in the evolving network of leadership choices within the group. Study 2 uses a vignette experiment to directly test how hierarchical relational schemas affect people's leadership perceptions.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://meeting.aomonline.org/2011/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Authors |
| Divisions: | International Relations |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Apr 2012 13:24 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 14:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/43119 |
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