Collaborative Leadership in an Organizational Context: A Research Agenda
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Date
2022-03
Authors
Ang’ana, Gilbert A.
Kilika, James M.
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Stratford
Abstract
Organizations not only exist to make a profit and be financially sustainable but also to make a
difference and have a meaningful legacy using specific business models adopted. To achieve
that outcome organizations must establish effective authority relationships to work together
efficiently. This is what entails collaborative relationships and leadership. The literature on
collaborative leadership despite having significant developments over the last two decades has
been faulted. There have been vast perspectives from scholars with minimal consensus on what
constitutes acceptable dimensions of collaborative leadership and how that fits in an
organizational context. These misalignments have resulted in challenges to the full realization
of the benefits of collaborative leadership as a result of its skewed implementation and
application in an organizational context. The result is a lack of appreciation and belief by
business practitioners and organization leaders on the implications of collaborative leadership
application on their organization’s financial sustainability. This effect goes deeper in that
organization leaders are not very clear on the impact of their organization's business model and
their role in facilitating successful collaborative leadership. This conceptual paper aimed to
bridge that gap by reviewing and integrating extant conceptual, theoretical, and empirical
literature on collaborative leadership and present a case for the development of a new
theoretical model suitable for the expansion of the current understanding of deployment of
collaborative leadership in an organizational context. The paper reviewed 397 articles from
various journals, which were searched through the google search engine. 132 articles were
finally used in the development of this paper sieved by the year of publication from 2001-2021.
The findings lead to the development of a proposed and integrated conceptual framework
model linking collaborative leadership to financial sustainability as an organizational outcome
while acknowledging the significance of the role played by the organization’s business model
and top echelon support in the relationship. Several propositions are presented for consideration
and validation through empirical work. The study calls on future research to consider the
adoption of the proposed model in extending research on leadership to new frontiers.
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Keywords
Collaborative Leadership, Organizational Commitment, Business Model, Financial Sustainability, Authentic Relationships, Collaborative Context, Leader’s Behavior
Citation
Angana G., A. & Kilika J., M. (2022). Collaborative Leadership in an Organizational Context: A Research Agenda. Journal of Human Resource & Leadership. Vol 6(1) pp. 48-71. https://doi.org/10.53819/81018102t2050