Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
About the Book Series
Routledge are pleased to announce a new research series focusing on leadership. Designed for scholars and researchers within the field, as well as executives and administrators, it will reflect cutting edge international leadership research. Relevant to all aspects of business conduct for individuals and organizations, books in this new series will analyse emerging and critical perspectives on leadership research, and reflect the discipline from organizational and political perspectives as well as those of individual leaders such as CEOs.
Women Business Leaders: Identity, Resistance, and Alternative Forms of Knowledge in Saudi Arabia
1st Edition
By Liela A. Jamjoom
May 27, 2024
Published works on Saudi women in organizational contexts are overwhelmingly reductionist, producing a singular story and a monolithic "Saudi woman." This book aims to counter the master narrative on Saudi women in leadership by offering an intimate reading of the women’s stories and experiences. ...
Adaptive Leadership in a Global Economy: Perspectives for Application and Scholarship
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammed Raei, Harriette Thurber Rasmussen
September 25, 2023
With the entire world experiencing the global pandemic and its aftermath, VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) conditions have never been more extreme and the need for adaptive leadership never more urgent. But how is adaptive leadership applied outside Western cultures? How can it be...
Researching Leadership-As-Practice: The Reappearing Act of Leadership
1st Edition
By Vasilisa Takoeva
December 19, 2022
One current challenge of conducting research from the leadership-as-practice perspective is a practical one: how to capture and analyse the elusive practice of leadership within the web of mundane organising processes. Although a number of researchers have attempted to address the issue, there is ...
Digital Supply Chain Leadership: Reshaping Talent and Organizations
1st Edition
By David Kurz, Murugan Anandarajan
August 29, 2022
Strong leadership is necessary to drive the transformational change required to build and apply digital capabilities across organizations. Digital transformation in the supply chain is a leadership problem first and foremost. This book draws out some of the key digital business strategies ...
Leadership, Gender and Ethics: Embodied Reason in Challenging Masculinities
1st Edition
By David Knights
August 29, 2022
This book has a clear concern to offer a distinctive way of studying leadership so that it might be practiced differently. It is distinctive in focusing on contemporary concerns about gender and ethics. More precisely, it examines the masculinity of leadership and how, through an embodied form of ...
Strategic Leadership and Systems Thinking
1st Edition
By Peter DeLisi
August 01, 2022
This book is about a new strategic leader – one who, inspired by General Systems Theory (GST), envisions an organization in which people and groups work together interdependently across organizational divides to reach a shared, rewarding future. GST has dramatically influenced physics, ...
Good Dividends: Responsible Leadership of Business Purpose
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Kempster, Thomas Maak, Ken Parry
February 25, 2020
This book seeks to answer the question of ‘leadership for what?’. We shall outline an answer by focusing on responsible leadership of purpose through an inter-disciplinary perspective. Responsible leadership moves the axis of leadership from leader-followers to leader-stakeholders; away from ...
Critical Perspectives on Leadership: The Language of Corporate Power
1st Edition
By Mark Learmonth, Kevin Morrell
May 09, 2019
Within contemporary culture, ‘leadership’ is seen in ways that appeal to celebrated societal values and norms. As a result, it is becoming difficult to use the language of leadership without at the same time assuming its essentially positive, intrinsically affirmative nature. Within organizations, ...
Leadership Matters: Finding Voice, Connection and Meaning in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Mabey, David Knights
September 27, 2018
In recent years we have seen what could be described as a moral meltdown in the corporate corridors of power. Few sectors have escaped high profile scandals, with public officials and leaders guilty of malpractice, duplicity, fraud and corporate malfeasance. Conventional leadership theories appear ...
Executive Team Leadership in the Global Economic and Competitive Environment
1st Edition
By Richard L. Nolan
June 08, 2018
Corporations have continued to grow and extend their operations into the global economy to the point that the modern corporation has become larger and more influential than many sovereign countries. In this global expansion, corporations have extended their operations with little restraint—almost ...
Leadership Varieties: The Role of Economic Change and the New Masculinity
1st Edition
By Alexander Styhre, Thomas Johansson
June 08, 2018
In all periods of time, there is a perceived shortage of qualified, credible, and robust leadership skills. At the same time, what is regarded as skilled leadership is contingent on economic, political, institutional, and cultural conditions specific for a period of time or a local setting. ...
Leadership-as-Practice: Theory and Application
1st Edition
Edited
By Joseph Raelin
February 10, 2016
This book develops a new paradigm in the field of leadership studies, referred to as the "leadership-as-practice" (L-A-P) movement. Its essence is its conception of leadership as occurring as a practice rather than residing in the traits or behaviours of particular individuals. A practice is a ...