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Civic capacity: Building on transformational leadership to explain successful integrative public leadership

Abstract
An emerging stream of work has been investigating the leadership processes necessary to guide public multi-sector collaborations. This stream of work argues that new leadership theory about integrative public leadership is needed because the context is different from that traditionally investigated by leadership researchers. In this paper, we advance the study of integrative public leadership by arguing that transformational leadership theory does apply to multi-sector collaborations, but needs to be augmented with an additional construct called “civic capacity.” We elaborate on this construct and suggest that it consists of three components: civic drive, civic connections, and civic pragmatism.
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Journal Article
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Sun, P.Y.T. & Anderson, M.H. (2011). Civic capacity: Building on transformational leadership to explain successful integrative public leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, available online 20 June 2011.
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2011
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Elsevier
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