To date there has been little work that uses fine-grained interactional analyses of the in situ doing of leadership to make visible the role of non-human as well as human actants in this process. Using transcripts of naturally-occurring interaction as data, this study seeks to show how leadership is co-achieved by artefacts as an in-situ accomplishment. To do this we situate this study within recent work on distributed leadership and argue that it is not only distributed across human actors, but also across networks that include both human and non-human actors. Taking a discursive approach to leadership, we draw on Actor Network Theory and adopt a ventriloquial approach to sociomateriality as inspired by the Montreal School of organizational communication. Findings indicate that artefacts “do” leadership when a hybrid presence is made relevant to the interaction and when this presence provides authoritative grounds for influencing others to achieve the group’s goals.

迄今为止，很少有工作使用对领导力的现场工作进行细粒度的交互分析来使非人类以及人类行为者在这一过程中的作用可见。这项研究使用自然发生的互动的笔录作为数据，旨在展示如何通过人工制品共同实现领导才能，从而成为一项就地成就。为此，我们将这项研究放在有关分布式领导的最新工作中，并认为该研究不仅分布在人类行为者之间，而且分布在包括人类和非人类行为者的网络中。采取话语权领导，我们借鉴了演员网络理论，并从蒙特利尔组织传播学院的启发中采用了口头论证的方法来处理社会重要性。