Network Leadership Patterns at Payam Noor University: A grounded theory

Networks are organizational and hybrid schemes that enable unified institutions to achieve goals that are beyond the capacity of any single organization. Experts in many fields, including organizational leadership, use network-based solutions to solve or improve complex social problems. The present study, based on data theorizing, illustrates the foundation of the network leadership model. The statistical sample includes the executive directors of Payame Noor University in both upper and middle levels. After the interview, the content of their opinions was examined in three steps of open, central and selective coding. The results of this study include concepts, categories and theorems that illustrate the network leadership model at Payame Noor University. Max QD software was used to analyze the data and extract the research model. The conclusion of this research indicates that the central phenomenon of the model, including network leadership in relation to other variables of the model, causes the excellence of the university network. How these factors interact is shown in the final research model. At the end of the research, a comparative comparison of new leadership styles based on a paradigm model is performed.