We are a team of leaders: practicing leadership in professional sport

Whales, L; Frawley, S; Cohen, A; Nikolova, N

We are a team of leaders: practicing leadership in professional sport

Whales, L

Frawley, S

Cohen, A

Nikolova, N

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Publisher:: Routledge
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Sport Management Review, 2022, 25, (3), pp. 1-25
Issue Date:: 2022-08-31

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dc.contributor.author	Whales, L https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4107-8299
dc.contributor.author	Frawley, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7552-3856
dc.contributor.author	Cohen, A https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2149-0654
dc.contributor.author	Nikolova, N https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-3822
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-14T04:14:10Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-14T04:14:10Z
dc.date.issued	2022-08-31
dc.identifier.citation	Sport Management Review, 2022, 25, (3), pp. 1-25
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dc.description.abstract	HIGHLIGHTS Leadership is collectively performed through social action. Relational leadership recognizes and promotes mutual influence. Leadership is practiced through interactions and meaning making. Experience and intuition influence leadership practice. Shared understandings enhance collective performance. Guided by the emerging literature on relational leadership this paper discusses how leadership is socially constructed in the context of a professional sporting organization. An in-depth exploratory case study with a championship winning professional team was conducted for the duration of the championship season. Data was collected through interviews with various members of the organization as well as through observations of training and game sessions. The findings highlight that leadership is practiced through interactions between individuals, informed by established and ongoing relationships. Specifically, leadership is found to be practiced through verbal interactions, non-verbal interactions, and social processes of meaning making. The outlined relational approach is concerned with the collective performance of leadership through social action, revealing insights that can inform leadership practice, development, and recruitment in professional sporting organizations. The paper concludes by suggesting potential directions for research on leadership in professional sport based on conceptualizing leadership as a relational phenomenon.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Routledge
dc.relation.ispartof	Sport Management Review
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/14413523.2021.1952793
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dc.rights	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Sport management review on 31 Aug 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2021.1952793
dc.subject	1503 Business and Management, 1504 Commercial Services, 1505 Marketing
dc.subject.classification	Sport, Leisure & Tourism
dc.title	We are a team of leaders: practicing leadership in professional sport
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
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HIGHLIGHTS Leadership is collectively performed through social action. Relational leadership recognizes and promotes mutual influence. Leadership is practiced through interactions and meaning making. Experience and intuition influence leadership practice. Shared understandings enhance collective performance. Guided by the emerging literature on relational leadership this paper discusses how leadership is socially constructed in the context of a professional sporting organization. An in-depth exploratory case study with a championship winning professional team was conducted for the duration of the championship season. Data was collected through interviews with various members of the organization as well as through observations of training and game sessions. The findings highlight that leadership is practiced through interactions between individuals, informed by established and ongoing relationships. Specifically, leadership is found to be practiced through verbal interactions, non-verbal interactions, and social processes of meaning making. The outlined relational approach is concerned with the collective performance of leadership through social action, revealing insights that can inform leadership practice, development, and recruitment in professional sporting organizations. The paper concludes by suggesting potential directions for research on leadership in professional sport based on conceptualizing leadership as a relational phenomenon.

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