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Leadership Maturity as Stewardship of Meaning: The Narrative Responsibility Framework

Aug 2026 · International Journal of Organizational Leadership · pp. 265-286 · 0 citations · 26 references

Abstract

Leadership increasingly occurs within organizational environments where individuals, groups, and communities derive different meanings from shared events. Although existing leadership theories provide important explanations of leadership behaviour, development, and influence, comparatively little attention has been devoted to how leaders progressively assume responsibility for the multiple narratives through which people understand themselves, one another

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