Innovation Credit: When and Why do Group Members Give their Leaders License to Deviate from Group Norms?

Rebels in Groups: Dissent, Deviance, Difference and Defiance

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 238-257

  Randsley De Moura, Georgina ^a   Abrams, Dominic ^a   Marques, José M ^b   Hutchison, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accrual and conferral, social identity perspective to leadership leadership accrues from prototypicality; Deviant group members, liable to be rejected or encouraged to conform; Innovation credit, when and why do group members giving their leaders license to deviate from group norms; Leaders of organisations, teams and groups changing group's direction or forging innovative paths; Leadership and attribution role of group norms; Leadership phase; SGD model application, to leadership processes reactions, depending on deviant's role within groups; SGD model outline model's reasoning to deviant leaders; Social identity, leadership and deviance; Subjective group dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886518889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390841.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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