“…Instead, the vast majority of the literature has adopted a static approach (e.g., Carson et al., 2007; Chiu, Owens, & Tesluk, 2016; Ensley, Hmieleski, & Pearce, 2006), conceptualizing shared leadership as a one‐time, static antecedent to different team outcomes (Contractor, DeChurch, Carson, Carter, & Keegan, 2012; Pearce & Conger, 2003. Thus, scholarly understanding of the interplay between time and shared leadership is still limited, despite recent work cautioning that shared leadership may take time to develop (Barnett & Weidenfeller, 2016). In fact, in their review work, Wassenaar and Pearce (2012) pose the question “… can a group develop shared leadership from its inception?” (p. 379) and identify the “life‐cycle of the group or the project” (p. 379) as a potential factor influencing shared leadership.…”