Leadership as Performative: Or How the Words ‘Leader’ and ‘Leadership’ Do Things

Jackie Ford, Nancy Harding and Mark Learmonth

Chapter 2 in Leadership as Identity, 2008, pp 32-50 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter’s focus is upon how the words Teader’ and ‘leadership’ are performative, that is, how those two words construct, or make both leaders and leadership thinkable. We are examining chief executives in Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) in this chapter, because the history of management and leadership in the NHS lends itself particularly well to this type of study.

Keywords: National Health Service; Chief Executive; Managerial Language; Representational Practice; Performative Utterance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230584181_2

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