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Taking a Narrative as Social Practice Approach to the Romance of Leadership, What New (Critical) Insights Are There to Be Had?

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2026
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dc.abstract.enResearch that investigates the romance of leadership (ROL) neglects the real-world practice of romancing leadership. In order to address this lacuna, this paper investigates new (critical) insights that a narrative as social practice approach may bring to ROL. Using stories from a celebrity interview as data, this paper analyzes how the social practice of storytelling romances leadership. Reflexively considering the relationship between knowledge of leadership and the situated process of producing knowledge of leadership, findings add to prior work by making visible not only how organizational players romanticize leadership as part of in situ social practice, but they also demonstrate what romanticizing leadership ‘does’ as part of social practice. The paper closes with a discussion of the implications and new (critical) insights that taking a narrative as social practice approach to ROL can offer, and it argues for a more critical, and destabilizing, approach to teaching leadership in business schools and beyond.
dc.contributor.authorJonathan Clifton
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-27T09:54:15Z
dc.date.available2026-04-27T09:54:15Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.date.published2026
dc.description.issue1
dc.description.versionAAM
dc.identifier.affiliationUniversité Polytechnique Hauts-de-France
dc.identifier.eissn1532-5555
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-4788-4726
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/3881
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationmanagement and quality studies
dc.publisherTamara
dc.relation.ispartofTamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subject.encritical leadership studies
dc.subject.endiscursive leadership
dc.subject.ennarratives as social practice
dc.subject.enreflexivity
dc.subject.enromance of leadership
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Taking a Narrative as Social Practice Approach to the Romance of Leadership, What New (Critical) Insights Are There to Be Had?

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