Theoretical and Practitioner LettersShared leadership theory
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Letter 1
Edwin A. Locke
Dean's Professor of Leadership and Motivation (Emeritus)
University of Maryland
32122 Canyon Ridge Drive
West Lake Village, CA 91316
Dear Ed:
We found the ideas in your critique chapter (Locke, 2003a) in our book, Shared Leadership (Pearce & Conger, 2003a), challenging and provocative. As you know, the purpose of the book was to put a stake in the ground, so to speak, on shared leadership theory: We wanted to advance inquiry into leadership processes outside the typical top–down
Letter 2
Craig Pearce
Associate Professor
Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
Claremont Graduate University
1021 N. Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Jay Conger
Henry R. Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Dear Craig and Jay:
This is in response to your comments on my chapter on shared leadership. I believe that the differences you point out between my position and yours are due mainly to three things: definition
Letter 3
Edwin A. Locke
Dean's Professor of Leadership and Motivation (Emeritus)
University of Maryland
32122 Canyon Ridge Drive
West Lake Village, CA 91316
Dear Ed:
Thank you for your challenging response to our letter. You articulate well the small margin of difference between our views. In response to your first two related critiques of our letter—that we have engaged in definition switching and equivocation—we disagree. For the sake of clarity, the exact quote from Cox et al. (2003, p. 48) defines shared
Letter 4
Craig Pearce
Associate Professor
Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
Claremont Graduate University
1021 N. Dartmouth Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Jay Conger
Henry R. Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies
Claremont McKenna College
850 Columbia Ave.
Claremont, CA 91711
Dear Craig and Jay:
Just some final remarks about our discussion. First, you point out (correctly) that I had inadvertently left out three words when quoting your definition of shared leadership as: “lateral
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