Sub-theme 48: Theorizing Power in, through and from Leadership Development

Convenors:
Jonathan Gosling, University of Exeter, UK
Magnus Larsson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Brigid Carroll, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Session I: Thursday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, T10
Construction of Leadership
Chair: Brigid Carroll
Janet Johansson
Becoming an athleticist role model: A study on the emotional and somatic aspects of the identity construction of a sporty CEO
Michelle Coombs
The discursive construction of a successful leader
Session II: Thursday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, T10
Identity Tensions in Developing Leadership
Chair: Magnus Larsson
Renato Souza
Inherited leadership: The power of discourses, images and narratives in leadership identity construction
Dima Louis and Pauline Fatien
When the frontier is the territory: Power dynamics, leadership development, and boundary spaces
Frank Meier
On the performativity of management education
Session III: Thursday, July 07, 16:00 to 17:30, T10
Power Shaping Leadership
Chair: Jonathan Gosling
Hongqin Li and Will Harvey
Multiple identities and the silent power of Taoist virtue ethics in Chinese SMEs: A leadership perspective
Johan Alvehus
Not that plural after all? Towards a situational understanding of leadership
Valerie Stead and Carole Elliott
Pedagogies of Power
Session IV: Friday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, T10
Learning Leadership
Chair: Brigid Carroll
Kala S. Retna
The case of design thinking and leadership and organisation development in Singapore
Annemette L. Kjærgaard, Frank Meier and Christian Tangkjær
Experiments as liminal learning spaces in Leadership Development: Threshold concepts as catalysts or inhibitors of transformation in the education of professional practitioners
Gareth Edwards, Doris Schedlitzki and Beverley Hawkins
Ugly ethics and beautiful toxicity: Exploring aesthetic agency in ethical leadership learning and development
Session V: Friday, July 08, 14:00 to 15:30, T10
Paradoxes and Liberation in Leadership
Chair: Magnus Larsson
Gerardo David Abreu Pederzini
Leaders and the impossible position: Development fantasies for leaders’ liberation
Morten Knudsen and Magnus Larsson
Leadership development and the really real organization
Zahira Jaser
What about followership development? The equal importance of the roles of leader and follower, in the presence of the Janus paradox
Session VI: Saturday, July 09, 09:00 to 10:30, T10
Leadership Development in Context
Chair: Jonathan Gosling
Doris Schedlitzki and Sylwia Ciuk
Leadership development – A case of discursive distancing
Magnus Larsson and Morten Knudsen
Leadership development as an arena for (re)constructing the organization
Brigid Carroll and Joshua Firth
Small, self, semi, suspended, and separate leading: Complexities of youth leadership and its development
Session VII: Saturday, July 09, 11:00 to 12:30, T10
Practicing Leadership
Chair: Brigid Carroll
Roddy Walker
Dealing with "cross pressures." Discipline and empowerment through a diploma programme in leadership.
Cyrille Sardais and Emmanuel Coblence
The ‘big stick’ of orchestra conductors? Exploring the material construction of leadership