Athlete leadership in sport teams: Current understanding and future directions

ST Cotterill, K Fransen - … Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Leadership is a fundamental aspect of sports performance, particularly within team sport
environments. Over the past 25 years there has been significant research exploring the role …

The dynamic group environment in sport and exercise

M Eys, MW Bruner, LJ Martin - Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2019 - Elsevier
Although researchers have offered insights across a range of topics (eg, cohesion,
leadership, roles, etc.), a recent review suggested that the field of group dynamics in …

Advancing the social identity theory of leadership: A meta-analytic review of leader group prototypicality

NK Steffens, KA Munt… - Organizational …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This research advances a social identity approach to leadership through a meta-analysis
examining four novel hypotheses that clarify the nature and impact of leader group …

The impact of identity leadership on team functioning and well-being in team sport: Is psychological safety the missing link?

K Fransen, D McEwan, M Sarkar - Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of psychological safety in explaining the
impact of identity leadership on team performance and athlete well-being. Adopting a cross …

[HTML][HTML] Leadership as social identity management: Introducing the Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) to assess and validate a four-dimensional model

NK Steffens, SA Haslam, SD Reicher, MJ Platow… - The leadership …, 2014 - Elsevier
Although nearly two decades of research have provided support for the social identity
approach to leadership, most previous work has focused on leaders' identity prototypicality …

Interprofessional collaboration in health care: Lessons to be learned from competitive sports

B Bosch, H Mansell - Canadian Pharmacists Journal/Revue …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Improved health care collaboration has been cited as a key strategy for health care reform.
1, 2 Collaboration in health care has been shown to improve patient outcomes such as …

Understanding team resilience in the world's best athletes: A case study of a rugby union World Cup winning team

PBC Morgan, D Fletcher, M Sarkar - Psychology of Sport and exercise, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Although team resilience research has identified the characteristics of elite sport
teams that positively adapt to adversity, further research is required to understand how …

The new psychology of sport and exercise: The social identity approach

SA Haslam, F Boen, K Fransen - 2020 - torrossa.com
After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to
mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …

The power of competence support: The impact of coaches and athlete leaders on intrinsic motivation and performance

K Fransen, F Boen, M Vansteenkiste… - … Journal of Medicine …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Grounded in the Cognitive Evaluation Theory, a mini‐theory of Self‐Determination Theory,
this experimental field study sought to examine the impact of competence support of both …

Who takes the lead? Social network analysis as a pioneering tool to investigate shared leadership within sports teams

K Fransen, S Van Puyenbroeck, TM Loughead… - Social networks, 2015 - Elsevier
Leaders do not operate in social vacuums, but are imbedded in a web of interpersonal
relationships with their teammates and coach. The present manuscript is the first to use …