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Follow Me: Strategies Used By Emergent Leaders In Virtual Organizations, Lindred Greer, Karen Jehn
Follow Me: Strategies Used By Emergent Leaders In Virtual Organizations, Lindred Greer, Karen Jehn
Karen A. Jehn
In this multi-method study, we investigated the strategies used by members who emerged as leaders in organizations communicating primarily via e-mail communication. We hypothesized and found that members who emerged as leaders tended to rely on soft influence tactics, were consistent in their usage of a certain influence tactic, and participated in e-mail exchanges more than other members. Additionally, we found that e-mail style moderated the relationship between soft tactic usage and emergent leadership, such that members who used weak e-mail style when using soft tactics were more likely to emerge as leaders. The use of weak e-mail style, such …