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Collective Leadership and Context in Public Administration: Bridging Public Leadership Research and Leadership Studies
Author(s) -
Ospina Sonia M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
public administration review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.721
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1540-6210
pISSN - 0033-3352
DOI - 10.1111/puar.12706
Subject(s) - bridging (networking) , collective leadership , shared leadership , leadership studies , leadership style , public relations , context (archaeology) , servant leadership , leadership , transactional leadership , political science , public administration , sociology , computer network , paleontology , computer science , law , biology , china
This article challenges the view that public leadership research should maintain a separate perspective in the study of public leadership. It discusses the benefits of further embedding the public leadership research domain within leadership studies, constructing a cross‐fertilization that contributes to advance both. The article maps key concerns in relational leadership theories, contrasting them with current work in the public leadership research domain and offering suggestions to close the gap. It highlights public leadership scholarship's competitive advantage to contribute to theorizing about leadership, given the importance of context for building contemporary theories of relational leadership .