The Impact of Heterogeneous Shared Leadership in Scientific Teams

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15804v1
• Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:10:00 GMT
• Title: The Impact of Heterogeneous Shared Leadership in Scientific Teams
• Authors: Huimin Xu, Meijun Liu, Yi Bu, Shujing Sun, Yi Zhang, Chenwei Zhang, Daniel E. Acuna, Steven Gray, Eric Meyer, Ying Ding
• Abstract summary: This paper aims to advance our understanding of shared leadership in scientific teams. By considering the combinations of any two leaders, we distinguish shared leadership as heterogeneous.
• Score: 17.966381604797146
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Leadership is evolving dynamically from an individual endeavor to shared efforts. This paper aims to advance our understanding of shared leadership in scientific teams. We define three kinds of leaders, junior (10-15), mid (15-20), and senior (20+) based on career age. By considering the combinations of any two leaders, we distinguish shared leadership as heterogeneous when leaders are in different age cohorts and homogeneous when leaders are in the same age cohort. Drawing on 1,845,351 CS, 254,039 Sociology, and 193,338 Business teams with two leaders in the OpenAlex dataset, we identify that heterogeneous shared leadership brings higher citation impact for teams than homogeneous shared leadership. Specifically, when junior leaders are paired with senior leaders, it significantly increases team citation ranking by 1-2%, in comparison with two leaders of similar age. We explore the patterns between homogeneous leaders and heterogeneous leaders from team scale, expertise composition, and knowledge recency perspectives. Compared with homogeneous leaders, heterogeneous leaders are more adaptive in large teams, have more diverse expertise, and trace both the newest and oldest references.

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