Högskolan i Skövde

The article aims to understand how changes in nurses' and physician's daily workcreate opportunities for distributed leadership outside formal managerial positions.The paper demonstrates ways in which nurses and physicians are engaged in dis-tributed leadership locally at primary care centers. The study involves in-depth in-terviews with nurses, physicians, and managers at Primary Care centers in Sweden.The study uncovers three basic mechanisms through which nurses and physiciansengage in distributed leadership. The study shows how the two groups differ in howthey are able to draw benefits from engaging in distributed leadership.