TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2021/10//
TI  - Enriching the concept of authentic leadership in project-based organisations through the lens of life-stories and self-identities
VL  - 39
A1  - Sergeeva, N
A1  - Kortantamer, D
KW  - Authentic leadership
KW  -  Project-based organisations
KW  -  Narratives Self-identities
KW  -  Stories
EP  - 825
IS  - 7
ID  - discovery10133884
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2021.09.001
N1  - Crown Copyright © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
JF  - International Journal of Project Management
PB  - Elsevier
N2  - The tendency to present authentic leadership as a set of project manager attributes (e.g., characteristics, behaviours, competencies) limits the potential of this concept to help address the challenges of contemporary projects. Using the lens of self-identity and drawing on life-story interviews with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of public project-based organisations in the UK construction industry, this paper offers an enrichment of the authentic leadership concept that takes into account situated nuances and struggles encountered in the lived experiences of leaders. The findings reveal a dialogical process between more coherent narratives and personalised stories articulated by the leaders, continued interweaving stories of self and the context, and ongoing efforts to cope with relational anxieties, authenticity and self-identity struggles. It is shown that these processes are situated in cultural values, roles, institutionalised views of leadership and the broader context, and shape the contextual conditions for project work.
SP  - 815
AV  - public
ER  -