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Fantasies of leadership - identity work

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  • Sveningsson, Stefan

    (Department of Business Administration, School of Economics and Management, Lund University)

  • Larsson, Magnus

    (Department of Psychology, Lund University, Box 213, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden)

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In this paper we investigate and explore middle managerial talk and practice connected to expectations of leadership in a planned corporate cultural change. In the paper we follow how a middle manager positions himself in relation to the contemporary discourse on leadership. In particular we discuss how managerial claims of leadership in practice seem inconsistent with the actual practice. Based on these findings we suggest that leadership ideas could be seen as a kind of fantasy related to identity work more than actual practice. We investigate this fantasy in terms of its various sources and try to relate the fantasy construction to management education and to the planned cultural change in particular.

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  • Sveningsson, Stefan & Larsson, Magnus, 2005. "Fantasies of leadership - identity work," Working Paper Series 2005/9, Lund University, Institute of Economic Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhb:lufewp:2005_009
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    Leadership; managerial work; identity work; identity process; fantasy;
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