The Dynamics of Shared Leadership: New Directions in Research

Shared leadership is an emergent team property resulting from the distribution of leadership roles and influence across multiple team members, where different team members may share different leadership functions simultaneously or across different time points. Despite theories suggest that shared leadership is a dynamic process and an emergent team property, little is known about how shared leadership develops and evolves over time. Since shared leadership is gaining increased popularity in practice as a promising way to actively adapt to a team-based approach to work, studying shared leadership with a time-sensitive approach is urgently needed for more accurate understandings and better practical implications. In this symposium, we put forth a set of studies that examines the development trajectory, antecedents, and consequences of the dynamics of shared leadership from different approaches (e.g., latent growth cure, latent change score, and cross-lagged approaches) and different perspectives. In sum, these studies advance some new directions in shared leadership research and provide some examples for scholars and practitioners to better understand and investigate the dynamics of shared leadership. We hope this symposium can attract more attention to studying the dynamics of shared leadership and spawn a new genre of shared leadership research. The Development of Shared Leadership in Entrepreneurial Teams: A Latent Growth Curve Approach Presenter: Chu-Ding Ling; Renmin U. of China Presenter: Nan Wang; Lingnan U. Reciprocal Relationships between Shared Leadership and Team Coordination: A Cross-lagged Analysis Presenter: Li Zhu; National School of Development at Peking U. Presenter: Chunhua Chen; National School of Development at Peking U. Presenter: Jinlong Zhu; Renmin U. of China Shared Leadership and New Venture Performance: A Latent Change Score Approach Presenter: Nan Wang; Lingnan U. The Effects of Shared Leadership on Team Resilience and Creativity after Disruption Events Presenter: Jinlong Zhu; Renmin U. of China