Bottom-Up/Top-Down Leadership: Contradiction or Hidden Phenomenon

2012/09/01 by Adrianna Kezar · 2 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Management and Organizational Studies #Organizational Learning and Leadership #Higher Education Governance and Development

paper · doi:10.1080/00221546.2012.11777264

Abstract

The study advances higher education leadership and change scholarship by examining a mostly unexplored area—the convergence between grassroots leadership with top-down leadership. The study is framed by two theories: tempered radicals framework and distributed leadership. Three common example of convergence are described as well as strategies for successful convergence and common challenges experienced by bottom-up leaders.

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