TY - JOUR T1 - Leadership practices by senior position holders in Higher Educational Research Institutes: Stealth power in action? JF - Leadership Y1 - 2019 A1 - Pat O’Connor A1 - Patricia Y Martin A1 - Teresa Carvalho A1 - Clare O’ Hagan A1 - Liria Veronesi and Ornella Mich A1 - Gulsun Saglamer A1 - Mine G Tan A1 - Hulya Caglayan KW - agenda control KW - centralised power KW - Higher Education Research Institutes KW - in-group loyalty KW - interviews KW - invisibility of gendered power KW - Leadership practices KW - rhetorical collegiality KW - senior position holders KW - stealth power AB -

Using the concept of stealth power and a critical realist perspective, this article identifies leadership
practices that obscure the centralisation of power, drawing on data from interviews with
25 academic decision-makers in formal leadership positions in HERIs in Ireland, Italy and Turkey.
Its key contribution is the innovative operationalisation of stealth power and the inductive identification
of four practices which obscure that centralised power, i.e. rhetorical collegiality, agenda
control, in-group loyalty and (at a deeper level) the invisibility of gendered power. The purpose of
the article is emancipatory: by creating an awareness of these leadership practices, it challenges
their persistence.

VL - 0(0) UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1742715019853200 ER -