“…Also, authors often use different terms, or the same terms carrying different meanings, for this diffused leadership phenomenon, such as shared (Pearce and Conger 2003;Ensley et al 2006;Pearce et al 2008), collective (Hiller et al 2006), and dispersed (Konradt, 2014). For example, 'shared leadership' (SL) is used by Pearce et al (2008) as virtually interchangeable with 'decentralized' leadership, in contrast with 'vertical' or 'centralized' leadership (Pearce et al 2008: 355).…”