Towards a negative ontology of leadership
基于近期关于领导力本体论的批判性辩论，提出将领导力重新概念化为一种根本性的、生产性的缺失，即一种缺席的存在空间，通过它表达个人和集体对领导力的渴望，并探讨了否定本体论在实证研究和批判反思中的潜力。
Drawing on recent critical debates concerning the ontology of leadership, this article outlines a radical rethinking of the concept – not as the study of heroic individuals, skilled practitioners, collaborators or discursive actors – but as the marker of a fundamental and productive lack; a space of absent presence through which individual and collective desires for leadership are given expression. Where current critical debates tend to oscillate between variants of the physical and the social in their analyses, this article considers the potential for a negative ontology of leadership; one in which absence, ideological practices and the operation of empty signifiers form the basis for empirical investigation and critical reflection.