A Framework for Understanding Collective Leadership: The Selective Utilization of Leader and Team Expertise within Networks

The present framework was developed by reviewing relevant existing literature,
abstracting critical concepts and evaluating relevant studies to make propositions regarding the
relationships between these concepts. This resulted in the proposed integrated framework for
understanding the collective leadership process. Once the framework was developed, potential
studies were proposed for testing components of the framework.

There are several important contributions emerging from this effort. The report provides
a review of relevant existing theories that can be used to understand how collective leadership
might operate. Based on this review a framework of collective leadership was developed and
propositions were made for the relationships between concepts in the collective leadership
framework.