The interplay of heroic and post-heroic leadership: Exploring tensions in leadership manifestations in the oscillations between onstage and offstage contexts

Arto Ryömä

Scandinavian Journal of Management, 2020, vol. 36, issue 1

Abstract: This paper strives to extend knowledge about tensions in heroic and post-heroic leadership. Previous studies have focused on one overarching context rather than explained how these tensions interplay in diverse contextual circumstances. This paper adopts a Goffmanian perspective and explores the tensions between heroic and post-heroic leadership in onstage and offstage contexts. By drawing on semi-structured interviews and an ethnographic observation of ice hockey teams, the paper proposes three dynamics by which these tensions are manifested in offstage and onstage contexts, namely: ‘Coaching over-the-others’, ‘Starring up-to-the-others’, and ‘Doing self in-the-others’. The paper concludes by discussing the importance of looking at the dynamics by which tensions between heroic and post-heroic leadership are manifested in multiple circumstances of team leadership.

Keywords: Ice hockey; Heroic leadership; Leadership-as-practice; Offstage; Onstage; Post-heroic leadership; Team sports (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scaman.2019.101092

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