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100			_aFord, Jackie _931153
245			_aFollowers in leadership theory: Fiction, fantasy and illusion
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520			_aThis article introduces a critical approach to follower/ship studies through exploring the unarticulated but highly influential implicit academic theory of follower/ship that informs dominant paradigms of leadership. Research into follower/ship is developing apace but the field lacks a critical account. Such an absence of critical voice renders researchers unaware of the performative effect of their studies, that is, how their studies actively constitute that of which they speak. So, do studies of followers (and leaders, it follows) constitute that very actuality they are studying? Analysis of seminal papers in three major categories of leadership, leader-centric, multiple leadership and leader-centred, shows that leadership theory is underpinned by the desire for power and control over the potentially dangerous masses, now labelled ‘followers’. The etiolated perspective of the people called ‘followers’ undermines leadership theory, and we recommend the wisdom of leaving follower/ship unexplored.
653			_aLeadership, followers
653			_acritical leadership studies
653			_apower
653			_atransformational
653			_a distributed
653			_aservant leadership
653			_aimplicit follower theory
700			_aHarding, Nancy _931154
773	0		_029449 _970295 _aCOLLINSON, DAVID _dNEW DELHI SAGE PUBLICATION PVT. LTD. _o5558640 _tLEADERSHIP _z1742-7150
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