Discursive Leadership: A Communication Alternative to Leadership Psychology
http://mcq.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/4/510
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Fairhurst, Gail T.
Management Communication Quarterly
2008

Abstract:

Without question, the study of leadership has a long and rich history within the organizational sciences despite varying attitudes toward the topic. For example, leadership psychologists portray leadership as an inner motor of leader and increasingly follower traits, states, emotions, and cognitive processing styles that as independent variables cause messages and behavior to be produced.