Research project Managerial shared leadership

Since the turn of the millennium, a research group has studied the phenomenon of shared leadership between managers in Swedish working life. Managerial shared leadership is a practice that goes beyond traditional, singular ways of organising leadership functions. It has long been hidden behind our societies’ individualistic, heroic view of leadership. 
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Managerial shared leadership is where two, three or more individuals conjointly work as managers, and it is defined as an organisational phenomenon where a few individuals have and/or take mutual responsibility for the tasks included in holding a managerial position. They share leadership within the frame of a managerial position and distribute leadership tasks and power within the sharing constellation.

As a research field, managerial shared leadership continues to be studied empirically in various contexts. The aim is to contribute knowledge about managerial shared leadership as a research field and offer relevant theoretical concepts. 

Read more about the project on the Swedish page.
 

Members

Lena Wilhelmson

Former Department of Education, Stockholm University

A review of empirical studies of co-principalship: - Antecedents, constellation-level outcomes and the issue of trust. Döös, M., & Wilhelmson, L. (2024). A review of empirical studies of co-principalship: . International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1-25. Open access. doi: 10.1080/13603124.2024.2369998

Fifty-five years of managerial shared leadership research: A review of an empirical field. - Döös, M., & Wilhelmson, L. (2021). Leadership, 17(6), 715-746. Open access. doi: 10.1177/17427150211037809

Changing organisational conditions: - Experiences of introducing and putting function-shared leadership (FSL) into practice in schools and pre-schools. Leadership and Policy in Schools. Döös, M., & Wilhelmson, L. (2020). On-line publ Open Access. doi: 10.1080/15700763.2020.1734628

Together as one: Shared leadership between managers. - Döös, M. (2015). International Journal of Business and Management, 10(8), 46-58. doi: 10.5539/ijbm.v10n8p46.

Going beyond “two-getherness”: - Nurse managers’ experiences of working together in a leadership model where more than two share the same chair. Döös, M., Vinell, H., & von Knorring, M. (2017). Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 43, 39-46. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2017.04.009

Shared principalship: The perspective of close subordinate colleagues. - Döös, M., Wilhelmson, L., Madestam, J., & Örnberg, Å. (2017). Internationa Journal of Leadership in Education, 1-19. On-line publ Open Access 170508. doi: 10.1080/13603124.2017.1321785

The shared principalship: Invitation at the top. - Döös, M., Wilhelmson, L., Madestam, J., & Örnberg, Å. (2017). International Journal of Leadership in Education, 21(3), 344-362. doi: 10.1080/13603124.2017.1321785

The principle of singularity: - A retrospective study of how and why the legislation process behind Sweden’s Education Act came to prohibit joint leadership for principals. Döös, M., Madestam, J., Wilhelmson, L., & Örnberg, Å. (2018). Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2(2-3), 39-55.

Isolated cases or widespread practice? The occurrence of sharing managers in Swedish working life. - Döös, M., Backström, T., Melin, M., & Wilhelmson, L. (2012). Economics and Business Letters, 1(3), 23-36.

Transformative learning in joint leadership - Wilhelmson, L. (2006). Journal of Workplace Learning, 18(7–8), 495–507.

Joint principalship: A potential support for democratic practice in schools. - Wilhelmson, L., & Döös, M. (2016). Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy, 2(1), 1-11.

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