Exploring the intersection between collective and hierarchical leadership in online team meetings in Turkey

Özlem Özbakış et al.

Discourse & Communication2026https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813251409532article
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Abstract

In this article, we explore the intersection between collective and hierarchical leadership in a software engineering company in Turkey. Drawing on 5 hours of video-recorded virtual team meeting interactions, we focus on decision-making processes as the team reports their progress. By employing Multimodal Conversation Analysis, we reveal the interactional dynamics among the project director, the official team leader and other participants in a software analysis team analyzed through deontic and epistemic lenses. We tease out the intricacies of leadership in the context of a professional hierarchy and by analyzing real time interactions, we demonstrate how leadership is collectively enacted in the sequential organization of talk. Our study provides further empirical evidence that fills the lacuna in understanding how collective and hierarchical leadership are intertwined in complex ways and thus responding to several calls in the leadership literature by analyzing these real-time interactions.

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@article{özlem2026,
  title        = {{Exploring the intersection between collective and hierarchical leadership in online team meetings in Turkey}},
  author       = {Özlem Özbakış et al.},
  journal      = {Discourse & Communication},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813251409532},
}

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