%0 Book Section %1 jameson2009distributed %A Jameson, Jill %B Online Communities and Social Computing %D 2009 %E Ozok, A.Ant %E Zaphiris, Panayiotis %I Springer Berlin Heidelberg %K communities distributed leadership online trust %P 226-235 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_25 %T Distributed Leadership, Trust and Online Communities %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_25 %V 5621 %X This paper analyses the role of distributed leadership and trust in online communities. The team-based informal ethos of online collaboration requires a different kind of leadership from that in formal positional hierarchies. Such leadership may be more flexible and sophisticated, capable of encompassing ambiguity and rapid change. Online leaders need to be partially invisible, delegating power and distributing tasks. Yet, simultaneously, online communities are facilitated by the high visibility and subtle control of expert leaders. This paradox: that leaders need to be %@ 978-3-642-02773-4

@incollection{jameson2009distributed, abstract = {This paper analyses the role of distributed leadership and trust in online communities. The team-based informal ethos of online collaboration requires a different kind of leadership from that in formal positional hierarchies. Such leadership may be more flexible and sophisticated, capable of encompassing ambiguity and rapid change. Online leaders need to be partially invisible, delegating power and distributing tasks. Yet, simultaneously, online communities are facilitated by the high visibility and subtle control of expert leaders. This paradox: that leaders need to be }, added-at = {2013-01-22T01:30:25.000+0100}, author = {Jameson, Jill}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24583f90bbf57e0affa43313094b4058c/jilljameson}, booktitle = {Online Communities and Social Computing}, description = {Distributed Leadership, Trust and Online Communities - Springer}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_25}, editor = {Ozok, A.Ant and Zaphiris, Panayiotis}, interhash = {bf9afb3b3cd602fa0379dccbfe369741}, intrahash = {4583f90bbf57e0affa43313094b4058c}, isbn = {978-3-642-02773-4}, keywords = {communities distributed leadership online trust}, pages = {226-235}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, timestamp = {2013-01-22T01:30:25.000+0100}, title = {Distributed Leadership, Trust and Online Communities}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02774-1_25}, volume = 5621, year = 2009 }