Challenging Leadership Stereotypes through Discourse Power, Manageme

This multidisciplinary volume brings together wide-ranging empirical research that goes behind the scenes of diverse organizations dealing with business, politics, law, media, education, and sports to unravel stereotypes of discursive leadership practices

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allenging Leadership Stereotypes Through Discourse Power, Management and Gender

Challenging Leadership Stereotypes Through Discourse

Cornelia Ilie Stephanie Schnurr •

Editors

Challenging Leadership Stereotypes Through Discourse Power, Management and Gender

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Editors Cornelia Ilie Malmö University Malmö Sweden

ISBN 978-981-10-4318-5 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-4319-2

Stephanie Schnurr Centre for Applied Linguistics University of Warwick Coventry, Warwickshire UK

ISBN 978-981-10-4319-2

(eBook)

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To Augusto, for joining in the question-asking and the answer-questioning (CI) To Sophie and Lena, who, I’m sure, will grow up to challenge more leadership stereotypes (SS)

Contents

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Scrutinising Recurrent Stereotypes in Leadership Discourse Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cornelia Ilie and Stephanie Schnurr

Part I 2

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Challenging Stereotyping Discourse Practices in Leadership Conceptualisation and Performance

Leadership and Change Management: Examining Gender, Cultural and ‘Hero Leader’ Stereotypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Janet Holmes Taking the (Heroic) Leader Out of Leadership. The In Situ Practice of Distributed Leadership in Decision-Making Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Clifton

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Leaders in Times of Change: Stereotypes and Counter-Stereotypes of Leadership Discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cornelia Ilie

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Lead