Advancing commission scholarship by inferring leadership legacy motivations from commission reports: The case of Sir Michael Lyons

Title
Advancing commission scholarship by inferring leadership legacy motivations from commission reports: The case of Sir Michael Lyons
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Wallis, Joe
Brodtkorb, Tor
Dollery, Brian E
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1177/0952076717699261
UNE publication id
une:23327
Abstract
This article contributes to commission scholarship by exploring how and why chairs use their reports to shape their leadership legacies. It distinguishes two types of legacy - fiduciary and expressive - that chairs shape through their reports. The expressive legacy of the chair can be shaped through judgements about the scope of stakeholder engagement and agenda adjustment that generate four types of leadership identity: conservator, consolidator, advocate and catalyst. We explore the particular ways in which the chair of the Lyons Inquiry into Local Government in the UK used his three reports to shape his legacy. Through his distinctive integration of historical and contemporary perspectives into a leading vision for local government, he expressed a consolidator identity with his short-term recommendations and a catalytic identity with his far-reaching envisioning of the institutional space within which a greater place-shaping role for local government could be established.
Link
Citation
Public Policy and Administration, 33(2), p. 216-237
ISSN
1749-4192
0952-0767
Start page
216
End page
237

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