Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journal of Environmental Management

Publisher

Elsevier

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Publication Date

9-1-2017

Publisher location

Amsterdam, Netherlands

First Page

74

Last Page

82

Issue Number

1

Volume Number

199

Abstract/ Summary

Leadership is often viewed as being critical to successful natural resource management. This research focuses on a set of leaders identified through a social network analysis of fishers in a rural coastal region. Leaders' connections to different fisheries are evaluated, and these actors are found to be significantly more diversified than other fishers in the area. Drawing on theory related to institutional entrepreneurship and a series of in-depth interviews with these actors, this paper puts forward several hypotheses to explain how diverse social-ecological connections facilitate leadership. Three mechanisms are identified. Being diversified facilitates: (1) production of alternative visions; (2) framing of tractable strategies to sustain local marine resource; and (3) articipation in the management process. While more research is needed to understand the relationship between diversification and leadership, these exploratory results suggest that leadership is, in part, a manifestation of ecological circumstance, supporting recent assertions that scholarship on leadership in natural resource management settings could benefit from being more attentive to the processes that shape leadership rather than fixating on individuals and their personal attributes. Given that fisheries policies increasingly constrain diversification, policymakers and managers should consider how specialization of fishers might change the form and function of leaders in the future.

Citation/Publisher Attribution

Stoll, Joshua. (2017). Fishing for leadership: The role diversification plays in facilitating change agents. Journal of Environmental Management. 199. 74-82. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.011.

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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd.

DOI

10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.011

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