Perez Moraga, Victor and Baxter, Lynne (2024) The leaderful quality of resistance within human-nonhuman encounters at work. Leadership. pp. 1-35. ISSN 1742-7150
Abstract
This paper shows the importance of more-than-human materialities in surfacing how affective processes of leaderful resistance emerge in the workplace. Employing a Spinozo-Deluzian approach to affect, we develop a new materialist analysis showing how more-than-human materialities resist in encounters with humans, generating flows of affect that lead. Based on a 9-month affective and virtual ethnography, we uncover two ways more-than-human matter resist we label affective hindrance – subtle barriers; and decompositional rupture – the undermining or breaking of relationships. These affective forces help explain how processes of resistance are co-produced in material encounters and how such relations both lead and resist in day-to-day organising, resulting in changes to work processes or reverberations that surface later, generating further leaderful resistance. Our work extends research that understands leadership as a less positive and organised process unfolding in unexpected ways.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024 |
Keywords: | Leadership,Resistance,Affect,Materiality,Ethnography |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2024 17:20 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jan 2025 00:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150231217587 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/17427150231217587 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:208089 |
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