01459nam a22001457a 4500 529988 529988 250520b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Kortantamer, Dicle 53336 A balancing act of leadership: The practice of shaping the direction of a project portfolio Project Management Journal 55(6), Dec, 2024: p.626-649 This article explores the practice of shaping the project portfolio direction through the lens of leadership. Focusing on a public setting, it uncovers three interrelated activities: developing ownership, networking, and de-personalizing. These activities can be accomplished through continuous balancing of substantive–symbolic and visible–subtle acts, institutional structures and their improvisations, and hierarchical and distributed leadership. The article contributes to (1) the project portfolio management literature by offering the concept of hybrid leadership and insights into the alignment of diverse stakeholder interests and worldviews, and (2) to the leadership literature by critiquing the leadership-as-practice movement and advancing explanations of the interplay between hierarchical and distributed leadership.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/87569728241232336 Leadership, Project portfolio management, Institutional and organizational context. 53337 Project Management Journal AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 405174 IIPA IIPA 2025-05-20 55(6), Dec, 2024: p.626-649 AR1358815 2025-05-20 AR