Abstract
Previous studies on e-leadership attempted to understand an open cooperative system and a new integration mechanism. However, prior to analysis, the researchers assumed certain problems in the ICT situation and a certain leader who can solve the problems based on researchers' experiences in a face-to-face situation wherein they have familiarized themselves. This is what I call the self-contained logic of the romance of leadership. I perform analytical procedures based on the original definition of leadership, and investigate a particular case of an online project developing web-applications in this study in order to overcome such methodological limitations. Finally, I find some leadership actions traditionally unnoticed by many leadership researchers who have implicitly assumed the face-to-face situation, and show the dynamic process that drives the leadership actions and the influence of these actions.
