The collective endorsement of James Meredith: Initiating a leader identity construction process
| Autor: | Jennifer Oyler, John H. Humphreys, Milorad M. Novicevic, Stephanie Pane-Haden, Russell W. Clayton, Mario Hayek, Wallace A. Williams, Jack Smothers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Process (engineering)
Strategy and Management Opposition (politics) Media studies Identity (social science) General Social Sciences Social environment General Medicine Archival research Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Political science Management of Technology and Innovation Law Sociology Governor Social psychology Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Human Relations. 68:1389-1413 |
| ISSN: | 1741-282X 0018-7267 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0018726714556292 |
| Popis: | DeRue and Ashford (2010) proposed a social process of leadership identity construction, asserting that leadership identity is co-constructed by way of claims and grants of leader and follower identities. In addition, these authors suggested that the collective endorsement of the broader social context might serve as a catalyst to initiate the leader identity construction process. As a result, they called for qualitative studies to further develop this idea. During archival research of James Meredith’s historic integration of the University of Mississippi, we discovered evidence to support and extend their theoretical arguments. Accordingly, we interpret the archival evidence of support and opposition of Meredith’s defiant integration to contrast the leader identity construction processes of Meredith with his contemporary antagonist, former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett. We use this analysis to illustrate how the distinctive social context broadly recognized the key element of defiance and collectively endorsed Meredith as a leader, thereby initiating his leader identity construction process. |
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