Leadership: Research and Practice
About the Book Series
The Leadership: Research and Practice Series includes both edited and authored volumes showcasing the latest leadership and behavioral research, as well as practical books based on the latest leadership theory with applications to Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Management, Organizational Behavior, Law, Political Science, and Military Psychology.
Ron Riggio is the Series Editor and Georgia Sorenson was a Founding Editor of the series.
Please send all book proposals to Ron Riggio ([email protected])
Spirituality for Leaders: Theoretical Insights and Practical Tools
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Voynnet Fourboul, Marie Holm, Mohammed Raei
December 22, 2025
Spirituality for Leaders delves into the integration of spirituality within leadership practices and highlights how spiritual beliefs and practices can enhance ethical decision-making, organizational culture, and well-being. The book emphasizes the essential role of spirituality in fostering ...
Understanding Dialogical Leadership: Conscious Conversations for Navigating Complexity
1st Edition
By Rens (E.) J. P. van Loon, Angel S. Buster
August 25, 2025
Understanding Dialogical Leadership emphasizes the power of dialogue, self-reflection, and shared decision-making in navigating the complexities of collaborative leadership, especially in the face of evolving challenges in modern life. The book underscores the importance of being conscious and open...
Women's Political Leadership for Sustainable Development: Driving Political Innovations
1st Edition
By Anna-Katharina von Stauffenberg
February 11, 2025
This book posits that women’s political leadership is vital for transitions to a sustainable future. It investigates the unsustainability of the current social order, offers strategies for achieving sustainable development, and explores the structure and agency variables that enable women political...
A Pluralistic Approach to Leadership: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
By Nathan W. Harter
December 30, 2024
This thought-provoking book adopts a pluralistic framework to examine leadership and raises important questions about how leadership studies scholars see and do their work. This book begins with an interdisciplinary discussion of what a pluralistic mindset is – a distinct framework for ...
Heroic Leadership: An Influence Taxonomy of 100 Exceptional Individuals
2nd Edition
By Scott T. Allison, George R. Goethals
December 30, 2024
Heroic Leadership is a celebration of our greatest heroes, from well-known legends to the legions of unsung heroes who transform our world quietly behind the scenes. Now in its second edition, this book offers a compelling conceptual framework for understanding heroism and heroic leadership, ...
Snapshots of Great Leadership
3rd Edition
By Jon P. Howell, Isaac Wanasika, Maria J. Mendez
November 26, 2024
Snapshots of Great Leadership offers a thorough look into leaders who have either accomplished amazing feats or brought destruction. Now in its third edition, this key volume explores what it means to be a great leader, and clearly explains the lives, triumphs, and challenges of a range of diverse ...
Navigating Leadership: Evidence-Based Strategies for Leadership Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Braun, Tiffany Keller Hansbrough, Gregory A. Ruark, Robert G. Lord, Rosalie J. Hall, Olga Epitropaki
August 02, 2024
Navigating Leadership provides evidence-based tools and recommendations to develop your leadership successfully. The book integrates knowledge in the areas of leadership and followership from evidenced-based global research and translates the findings into suggestions for organizational ...
Leadership on a Blockchain: What Asia Can Teach Us About Networked Leadership
1st Edition
By Frederique Covington Corbett
September 05, 2023
Leadership on a Blockchain: What Asia Can Teach Us About Networked Leadership is an authoritative text that goes to the foremost digitally connected markets of the world in Asia, and accounts for how leaders and teams are exercising leadership Darwinism to adapt for agility and connectivity. The ...
Leadership Mindsets for Adaptive Change: The Flux 5
1st Edition
By Sharon Ravitch, Liza Herzog
August 03, 2023
This informative and practical book helps leaders develop adaptive leadership mindsets and skills to address the myriad intersecting challenges shaping today’s workplace. Through the Flux 5 framework, organizational culture and systems experts Sharon Ravitch and Liza Herzog help leaders, teams, and...
Leadership and Virtues: Understanding and Practicing Good Leadership
1st Edition
Edited
By Toby P. Newstead, Ronald E. Riggio
March 30, 2023
Good leadership is something every leader and organization should strive towards. This book serves as a pivotal resource in encouraging the understanding and practice of leadership and highlights how good leadership is anchored in the rich philosophy and science of virtue. Through a diverse range ...
Intentional Leadership: Becoming a Trustworthy Leader
2nd Edition
By Karen E. Mishra, Aneil K. Mishra
September 28, 2022
Intentional Leadership: Becoming a Trustworthy Leader clearly explains the ways leaders can build trust in three stages of their career: as an individual contributor, as a team member, and as a leader of an organization. Through profiling a trustworthy leader, Bob Lintz, and his career at General ...
Donald Trump in Historical Perspective: Dead Precedents
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Harvey
April 12, 2022
Donald Trump in Historical Perspective: Dead Precedents is a collection of chapters that utilizes the thinking of historians, philosophers, and political scientists to explore historical parallels to the presidency of Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America. This ...