Metaphors we lead by : understanding leadership in the real world

By Mats Alvesson, André Spicer. 2011

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Subfields: Demography, Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• The Unwanted Self: Projective Identification in Leaders’ Identity Work (2012, unknown): “Reviewing the field of leadership studies, and/or offering yet another definition of leadership, would be beyond the scope of this paper (for recent reviews, see Alvesson & Spicer, 2011; Glynn & Raffaelli, 2010; Hogg, 2007).”
• Warning for excessive positivity: Authentic leadership and other traps in leadership studies (2019, background): “(Spoelstra & ten Bos, 2011, p. 183) Much leadership studies have a strong religious, even messianic overtone (Alvesson, 2011; Spoelstra & ten Bos, 2011; Tourish & Pinnington, 2002), often overlapping with hero qualities.”