Firms make increasingly use of independent professional teams, i.e. teams that are staffed with self-employed experts with high levels of entrepreneurial orientation. As independent professional teams are regularly self-managed, they rely on all team members sharing leadership responsibilities....

Flexible and highly integrated team‐based organizational designs are often seen as the necessary response to increasing technological and market complexities and dynamics. Building on the extant literature on team leadership, we specify and categorize leadership activities that are seen as...

Purpose – This case aims to look at a small start‐up car maker called Loremo, Inc. in Marl, Germany, that hopes to thrive by challenging resource constraints with bold innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The authors found Loremo as part of their five‐year long study looking at how...