...Noorazura Awang; Mua'azam Mohamad Purpose This paper validates an adapted Distributed Leadership Readiness Scale (DLRS) for Malaysian secondary schools, addressing the lack of culturally grounded measures of distributed leadership in a centralised system. Design/methodology/approach A seven...

...Norma Ghamrawi; Tarek Shal; Najah A.R. Ghamrawi Purpose This study examines the “last mile” of distributed leadership by investigating what happens when leadership reaches teacher leaders: whether it is further distributed to colleagues and students or instead retained and consolidated around...

...Ahmet Aypay; Çiğdem Çakır; Metin Özkan; Mehmet Şükrü Bellibaş Purpose Although theoretical approaches widely recognize that leadership can shape school culture, empirical research on how culture is associated with the emergence and functioning of distributed leadership and how this form...

...Sakari Hyrkkö; Anu Kajamaa Purpose Our study aims to explore distributed leadership as a concept emerging from the developmental efforts of a Finnish teacher training school community to transform their activity to transcend contradictions of the Finnish school system. Our study increases...

...Yussif Mohammed Alhassan; Mohammed Gunu Ibrahim Purpose This study investigates the relationships between distributed leadership, innovative work behavior (IWB), and teachers' perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) implementation in Ghanaian schools. Specifically, it explores the direct...

...María del Pilar García-Rodríguez; Inmaculada Gómez-Hurtado; Inmaculada González-Falcón; José Manuel Coronel Purpose We analyse the practices of distributed leadership exercised by principals in two Spanish primary schools. We provide evidence in this area. The study is framed in the Spanish...

...Anishya Obhrai Madan; Ajay K. Jain; Richard Bolden Purpose The concept of distributed leadership (DL) has been widely advocated within higher education (HE). Yet, there have been few empirical investigations and little theory development outside Western contexts to date. This study presents...

...Izhak Berkovich; Tahani Hassan Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating role of teachers' intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the relationship between principals' perceived distributed leadership and organizational learning capability in schools. Design/methodology...

...) in the past years has undergone reforms globally and nationally, which has led to challenges to the functioning of ECE organizations (Kristiansen et al., 2021 ; Siippainen et al., 2021 ; Eskelinen and Hjelt, 2017 ; Ho et al., 2016). In addition, distributed leadership structures...

...Lei Mee Thien; Donnie Adams; Hai Ming Koh Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationships between distributed leadership, teacher academic optimism and teacher organisational commitment with the contextual influence of gender and teaching experience. Design/methodology/approach...

...Peng Liu Purpose Understanding the relationship between distributed leadership and teachers commitment to change in the Chinese urban primary school context was the purpose of this study. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative research method is used in this study. For ensuring...

...Stephanie Chitpin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to know the extent to which a decision-making framework assists in providing holistic, comprehensive descriptions of strategies used by school leaders engaging with distributed leadership practices. The process by which principals and other...

... there is some evidence of its practice, notably in respect of monitoring. Similarly, distributed leadership is allocative, rather than emergent, as suggested in western literature. Research limitations/implications The findings show that, while research on these models is emerging, much more research...

...Aisha Salim Ali Al-Harthi; Yasser F. Hendawy Al-Mahdy Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine teachers’ perceptions of the levels of distributed leadership (DL) practices and the indicators of school effectiveness (SE) in Egypt and Oman. It also investigated the role of accreditation...

...Lokman Mohd Tahir; Sui Liang Lee; Mohammed Borhandden Musah; Hadijah Jaffri; Mohd Nihra Haruzuan Mohamad Said; Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the issues and challenges faced by headteachers in practicing the suggested distributed leadership (DL...

...Jan Merok Paulsen; Kjell Brynjulf Hjertø; Saku Petteri Tihveräinen Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between school leadership practices and teacher empowerment in the Finnish policy culture. Specifically, moral leadership and distributed leadership enacted...

... – There is very little research undertaken into the SFC sector. This research places an important concept such as distributed leadership into this niche sector. It also challenges the idea that distributed leadership is inherently positive in nature. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Sixth Form...

... in other case studies associated with the International Successful School Principalship Project (ISSPP). Ethic of community Collaborative leadership Distributed leadership School turnaround United States of America Leadership, Schools Collaboration among multiple stakeholders is an integral...