Building and maintaining shared leadership. The case of the French handball team
This article is about the process of building and maintaining shared leadership in a sports team. It presents a conceptual framework based on research about the sharing of leadership roles in sports teams, the interpersonal relationships in sports, and the changing process. Based on a qualitative analysis of secondary data about the French handball team during Claude Onesta’s tenure, this article contributes to the literature on sports leadership and shared leadership by describing a process of change that is fostered (or hindered) by interpersonal relationships between the formal leader and the informal leaders.