Autoethnography in Leadership Studies

Research Article| January 07 2020 Autoethnography in Leadership Studies: Past, Present, and Future Heewon Chang, Heewon Chang Eastern University Email: hchang@eastern.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Wendy Bilgen Wendy Bilgen Eastern University Email: wbilgen@eastern.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2020) 1 (1): 93–98. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.1.93 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Heewon Chang, Wendy Bilgen; Autoethnography in Leadership Studies: Past, Present, and Future. Journal of Autoethnography 7 January 2020; 1 (1): 93–98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.1.93 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search Qualitative research approaches had been embraced by leadership scholars since the 1980s when Boyle and Parry introduced autoethnography to the field of leadership studies in 2007.1 Despite the reality that autoethnography is grounded in the qualitative research tradition and shares its methodological strengths with other qualitative methods, acceptance was initially ambivalent due to its self-focused orientation.2 To draw upon the researcher’s personal experience as primary data, autoethnography utilizes self-reflection, meaning “reliving and rerendering [about self]: who said and did what, how, when, where, and why,” and self-reflexivity, meaning “finding strategies to question our own attitudes, thought processes, values, assumptions, prejudices and habitual actions, to strive to understand our complex roles in relation to others.”3 This initially “underexplored, undertheorised and, above all, undervalued” self-focused method is gaining attention among leadership scholars.4 Growing numbers of published autoethnographies attest to this rising trend in leadership scholarship. In... You do not currently have access to this content.