Angela de Jong

86 When a social network perspective is used in studies to investigate distributed leadership, which are mostly explorative studies, either the collective or the dynamic aspect is investigated and the relational aspect is missing. We described distributed leadership by three theoretical aspects and selected appropriate network measures for each of these aspects to measure distributed leadership in school teams. The correlations between the three network measures (density, reciprocity, indegree centralization), the sociograms, and the differences between school teams in their level of distributed leadership, suggest that the three network measures form a coherent combination and simultaneously each of the measures refer to one of the aspects of distributed leadership. Thus, adding the relational aspect in addition to the collective and dynamic seems to be informative to study distributed leadership in school teams. Studying this combination of measures can help to more comprehensively describe distributed leadership and enables us to deepen understanding of leadership processes in school teams.

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