Leadership in Research
Transformational Leadership and Commitment to Concepts in Knowledge Creation
Abstrakti
While the autonomy of research professionals is
considered a crucial condition for the quality of
their findings, leadership of research is also seen
necessary for the efficiency and quality of
research work in research teams. Leadership may
be effective in terms of knowledge creation, but
this area is poorly understood. This article
analyses the nature of commitment to concepts
as part of the effect of transformational
leadership on research work within a group. The
conclusion is that leadership is an integral part of
knowledge creation, not just of knowledge
sharing and exploitation. Effective leadership
results in the mixture of epistemic and social
commitments that makes a group a collective
knower, not just a sum of individual knowers.
The analysis of conceptual commitments
contributes to understanding the rejectionist/
believer debate of social epistemology in a new
light.
