The leaderful quality of resistance within human-nonhuman encounters at work

Victor Perez Moraga; Lynne Baxter

doi:10.1177/17427150231217587

The leaderful quality of resistance within human-nonhuman encounters at work

Victor Perez Moraga, Lynne Baxter

The York Management School

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Abstract

This paper shows the importance of more-than-human materialities in surfacing how affective processes of leaderful resistance emerge in the workplace. Employing a Spinozo-Deluzian approach to affect, we develop a new materialist analysis showing how more-than-human materialities resist in encounters with humans, generating flows of affect that lead. Based on a 9-month affective and virtual ethnography, we uncover two ways more-than-human matter resist we label affective hindrance – subtle barriers; and decompositional rupture – the undermining or breaking of relationships. These affective forces help explain how processes of resistance are co-produced in material encounters and how such relations both lead and resist in day-to-day organising, resulting in changes to work processes or reverberations that surface later, generating further leaderful resistance. Our work extends research that understands leadership as a less positive and organised process unfolding in unexpected ways.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-35
Number of pages	35
Journal	Leadership
Early online date	13 Nov 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/17427150231217587
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 Nov 2024

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Keywords

Leadership
Resistance
Affect
Materiality
Ethnography

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