Performing Leadership: An Exploration in Three Acts

A rigorous analysis of the implications of leadership being seen literally or metaphorically as a performance. The book introduces a framework which examines the performance of leadership through the dimensions of enactment, narrative and audience, focusing throughout on the ways in which managers can apply these ideas in their own leadership.

After spending 15 years as a senior public service manager, EDWARD PECK has held senior appointments at Kings College London, UK and the University of Birmingham, UK. At Birmingham, he has previously directed both the Health Services Management Centre and the School of Public Policy whilst undertaking research, teaching and consultancy that have supported the development of public services in the UK. He is currently Head of the College of Social Sciences.

HELEN DICKINSON heads up the health and social care programme at the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham, UK. In addition to publishing widely on the topic of health and social care partnership working, Helen has a keen interest in critical theories particularly in the way these might be applied to studies of leadership.