@proceedings{6663, keywords = {FLOSS, Leadership}, author = {Kevin Crowston and Sandra Seiber and Robert Heckman and Kevin Crowston and Nora Misiolek}, title = {A structurational perspective on leadership in virtual teams}, abstract = {Building on behavioural leadership theory and structuration theory, we present a two-order theory of leadership. It describes four classes of first-order leadership behaviours (task coordination, substantive task contribution, group maintenance and boundary spanning) and defines second-order leadership as behaviour that influences changes in the structure that guides group action. We argue that second-order leadership is enabled by first-order leadership and is therefore action embedded and grounded in processes that define the social identity of the group. We propose that effective virtual teams will exhibit a paradoxical combination of shared, distributed first-order leadership complemented by strong, concentrated, and centralized second-order leadership. We conclude by suggesting future research that might be conducted to test and further elaborate our theory.}, year = {2007}, journal = {Proceedings of the IFIP Working Group 8.2/9.5 Working Conference on Virtuality and Virtualization}, pages = {151–168}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Portland, OR}, doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-73025-7_12}, language = {eng}, }