Emotions in Leadership in an IOIS Project

This interpretive grounded theory (GT) study describes and analyzes emotions in leadership in a Nordic inter-organizational information system (IOIS) project which spanned four user organizations, two suppliers, one national organization, a research organization and a Ministry. This study shows how GT can be used to gain significant insights into a case study, and generate new concepts. We identified Certainty, Significance, Connection and Contribution as important selective codes that make up the Emotions category. The paper focuses on leadership issues in the emotion category. The paper concludes by discussing how some of leadership issues could be attributed to emotions issues and considers some theoretical and practical implications.

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