leadership for a changing world
research and documentation component

Research Publications 

• Weaving Color Lines: Race, Ethnicity, and the Work of Leadership in Social Change Organizations
  Ospina, Sonia and Celina Su. Leadership (2009) 5; 131.



• Sensegiving and the Role of Cognitive Shifts in the Work Leadership
  Foldy, Erica Gabrielle, Laurie Goldman, and Sonia M. Ospina. The Leadership Quarterly 19 (2008) 514-529.



• Cooperative Inquiry for Learning and Connectedness
  Ospina, Sonia M., Waad El Hadidy, and Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla. Action Learning: Research and Practice (2008).



• Taking the Action Turn: Lessons from Bringing Participation to Qualitative Research
  Ospina, Sonia, Jennifer Dodge, Erica Gabrielle Foldy and Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla, The Sage Handbook of Action Research, Reason & Bradbury, Eds. (2007) 420-434.



• The Tapestry of Leadership: Lessons from Six Cooperative Inquiry Groups of Social Justice Leaders
  Yorks, Lyle, Arnold Aprill, La Don James, Anita M. Rees, Amparo Hofmann-Pinilla and Sonia Ospina, The Sage Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice, The Sage Handbook of Action Research, Reason & Bradbury, Eds. (2007) 188-204.



• A Constructionist Lens on Leadership: Charting New Territory.
  Ospina, Sonia and Georgia Sorenson. The Quest for a General Theory of Leadership (2006) 188-204.



• Narrative Inquiry and the Search for Connectedness: Practitioners and Academics Developing Public Administration Scholarship
  Ospina, Sonia, and Jennifer Dodge. Public Administration Review 65:4 (2005).



• Integrating Rigor and Relevance in Public Administration Scholarship: The Contribution of Narrative Inquiry
  Dodge, Jennifer, Sonia M. Ospina, and Erica Gabrielle Foldy. Public Administration Review 65:3 (2005) 286-300.



• It's About Time: Catching Method Up to Meaning - The Usefulness of Narrative Inquiry in Public Administration Research
  Ospina, Sonia M., and Jennifer Dodge. Public Administration Review 65:2 (2005) 143-157.



• From Consent to Mutual Inquiry: Balancing Democracy and Authority in Action Research
  Ospina, Sonia, Jennifer Dodge, Bethany Godsoe, Joan Minieri, Salvador Reza and Ellen Schall. Action Research 2:1 (2004) 47-69.



• Appreciative Narratives as Leadership Research: Matching Method to Lens
  Schall, Ellen, Sonia Ospina, Bethany Godsoe, and Jennifer Dodge. Advances in Appreciative Inquiry Vol. 1 (2004) 147-170.



• Co-Producing Knowledge: Practitioners and Scholars Working Together to Understand Leadership
  Ospina, Sonia, Ellen Schall, Bethany Godsoe and Jennifer Dodge. Building Leadership Bridges 2002. (2002) 59-67.



• Qualitative Research
  Ospina, Sonia. Encyclopedia of Leadership. Thousand Oaks: Sage. (2004) 1279-1284.